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CONTENTS 






PAGE 


The story of the work .... 


9 


^ onathan Nutting's account book (see also 


66) . 13 


John, the Founder 


. 15 


The Governor's island legend 


. 17 


As to our name 


. 19 


And whence came we ? 


. 21 


Concerning a Nutting coat of arms . 


. 24 


Groton 


. 26 


Gibbet hill 


. 27 


Groton inn 


. 30 


The graveyard 


. 29 


The lakes, Baddycook, Massapoag 


. 33 


The Nashua river 


. 35 


Nod farm 


. 35 


First generation 


. 40 


The Rev. John Fiske's note book. 


. 41 


Remove to Groton . . . . 


. 42 


Remote accommodations of John Nuttin 


g (see 


also 95) 


. 45 


John Nutting as a Groton town officer 


. 46 


as a land holder 


. 49 


as a soldier 


. 53 


The burning of Groton . 


. 53 


King Philip's war .... 


. 53 


Return to Groton 


. 61 


Second generation 


. 63 


Third generation 


. 65 


Jonathan Nutting's account book 


. 66 


The first shoe made in Groton 


. 66 


Starred names . , . , , . 


. 69 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Fourth generation 72 

Lieutenant William 72 

David, the loyalist 76 

Fifth generation 78 

Xutting cemetery, West ford .... 79 

Abel, the musketeer 81 

William, Esquire, of Groton 82 

Continental currency 83 

Shays 's rebellion 83 

Vaccination 84 

Minute books 85 

Captain John of Lexington 87 

Uncle Eb's fife 87 

John of Northampton 89 

Sixth generation 93 

Th(jmas, of Oswego county, New York . . 93 
Asia Nutting's house on John I's accommodations 95 

William, Esquire, of Randolph .... 96 

The Patch branch 98 

The Bardeen branch 98 

Joseph Danforth Nutting 99 

Professor Rufus Nutting 101 

Nutting's English Grammar .... 101 
T lie Chamberlain branch . * . . .102 

Seventh generation 113 

Rufus, the organ-maker 117 

The Rev. David Hubbard Nutting . .118 

Mary Ohvia Nutting 120 

The Patch branch 120 

Zara Patch 120 

The Rev. Jacob Patch and wife . .126 

The Bardeen branch ' 127 

Sarah Hubbard Nutting 129 



INDEX 


7 


Isaiah Hall Nutting ...... 


'. 131 


Inductive English Grammar 


. 131 


George French Nutting 


. 131 


Daniel Chaplin Nutting . . . . 


. 132 


The Rev. John Keep Nutting . . . 


. 133 


Timothy Dwight Nutting . . . . 


. 136 


His tin horn eight feet long 


. 136 


The Rev. William Jarvis Gregg Nutting 


. 137 


The Chamberlain branch .... 


. 137 


The Rev. Jacob Chamberlain . 


. 138 


William Isaac Chamberlain 


. 141 


Benjamin Franklin Nutting . 


115, 264 


Mary Adelaide Nutting .... 


. 144 


George E. Nutting .... 


. 146 


Truman Nutting 


. 154 


Mary Eliza Nutting .... 


. 155 


Andrew J. Nutting . . . . 


. 159 


Col. Lee Nutting 


. 159 


Eighth generation ..... 


. 162 


Newton W. Nutting .... 


. 162 


James Ralph Nutting .... 


. 164 


Mrs Amy Belle Nutting Irish 


. 165 


The Rev. Wallace W. Nutting . 


. 166 


Cordelia A. Gilman Nutting . 


. 169 


Maria Gilman Nutting .... 


. 170 


William Rufus Nutting .... 


. 171 


The Rev. John Danforth Nutting ■ . 


. 172 


Ruth Nutting 


. 174 


George Hale Nutting .... 


. 176 


The Patch branch 


. 176 


The Bardeen branch . . . ' . 


. 180 


The Bennett branch .... 


. 187 


Daniel Chaplin Nutting 


. 190 


Jessie Gulielma Nutting . . 


. 193 



8 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Anna Celeste Nutting 

The Chamberlain hrancJi . 

James Robert Nutting . 

Jonathan Johnson . 

Frederic Harrison Nutting 

Lucius Henry Nutting 
Ninth generation 

Frederic George Carlton. 

The Patch branch 

The Bardeen branch 

Lillith May Nutting 
Characteristics of the Nutting f 
Appendix. Nuttings_in the Re 
Place Index .... 
Name Index I, Surnames not Nutting. 
Name Index II, Given names of Nuttings 
Errata 



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. 193 
. 196 
. 198 
. 201 
. 202 
. 203 
. 212 
. 212 
. 216 
. 217 
. 227 
. 230 
. 233 
. 249 
. 252 
. 266 
. 278 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Before we really Begin 

The Story of The Work 

I must have been born with the antiquarian instinct. 
I always loved to be occupied with things that belonged 
to the times long past. An atavism of that sort also 
seems to have attached to the line of my descent. My 
grandfather compiled — with assistance hereafter to be 
mentioned — a Nutting Genealogy. And before me as I 
write, is a little volume, now almost two centuries old, 
which contains a beginning of the same sort by my 
grandfather's grandfather. This compiler had not 
much material to work up, it is true, for his grandfather 
was the father and founder of us all. But he did what 
he could. I have but continued the series thus twice 
begun. This is the heredity of it. Environment help- 
ed. I was born in one of the most ancient homes of 
our family. It had sheltered three generations of Nut- 
tings before my own, of which I was the youngest mem- 
ber. In my childhood, the old house showed all its an- 
tiquity.* It was weather-beaten and time-stained, 
just as an artist would have liked it. A great central 
chimney, with many flues, gave it a homely dignity. 
Long, sloping roofs came down at the rear, very near to 
the ground. Moss and lichen did their "best to give ar- 
tistic touches of color. 

* The picture of "Nod Farm" on page 35 shows the house much modernized. This 
was done while I was a lad, but I remember the older building. 



1(1 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

A niiglitv elm swung its branches over the nearest 
part of tlie roof-branches hung with flashing orioles 
and their swinging nests. The less-used flues of the 
great chimney were peopled every summer by hundreds 
of chimney-swallows, which went siffering down into 
their nests the last thing at night, and came chittering 
out before sleepy lads liked to waken in the morning. 

Within this house also were relics and heir-looms, 
each with its half-dream\- legend, just fitted to help on 
the ready imagination of the antiquarian small boy. 
All were eciually ancient to me then. As I recall a few 
of them, I conclude that the most venerable of them all 
must have been the very long-handled spontoon (a ca- 
valry-weapon) reputed to have come over seas with the 
\ery first settlers, perhaps with our first ancestor. It 
looked wicked enough to have come out of the Dark 
Ages. A pillion, tattered and moth-eaten, which hung 
above my reach in the "chaise-house" must have been 
a close second. What delightful shudders it gave me to 
crane my neck for a near view of those dark stains upon 
its faded cushion — tokens of the tragedy w^hich had con- 
secrated it for a memorial forever! As I then under- 
stood the story, my grandmother had been piously ri- 
ding to meeting upon that pillion, behind her puritan 
husband, when the arrow or the bullet of a skulking In- 
dian found its mark, and ended her earthly life. Long 
after both pillion and dwelling had gone up like Elijah 
by the fiery way, I learned tliat this story was true, on- 
1\' that the grandmother was the very first of my mo- 
ther's foremothers in America; that the tragedy took 
place at Longmeadow, near Springfield; but that the 
pillion came, first to Westford, and then — with my mo- 
ther — to my home. 



HEREDITARY INSTINCT DEVELOPED 11 

There was a shoe-maker's bench, on which had been 
made the very first shoe ever made in Groton,-in the 
the yeai 1706, and for aught I know it may have been 
made out of "Wilyam Shattuck's hyde", which cer- 
tainly was paid for about that time. 

There were Revolutionary relics, too; the "musket" 
which Corporal William had carried to Lexington, and 
its * 'accoutrements"— cartridge-box, knapsack, etc.— and 
the sword, still in my possession, and long reputed to 
have been used in that battle by Lieutenant William, 
the corporal's father. I am sorry to say that I feel some 
doubt as to the sword, as upon seeking documentary 
proof that the elder William was a Minute-man, I can- 
not find it. 

Outside the house were other stimulants to the boy's 
imagination. The low hill behind the old dwelling show- 
ed a depression which marked the location of an ancient 
Indian strong-hold, known as the "Indian Fort". Ev- 
ery plowing turned up evidence that this tradition was 
not without some foundation, in the shape of numerous 
arrow-heads and other Indian relics, including at least 
one stone axe. We boys believed that the fort had be- 
longed to Paugus, the great Sagamore of the Pigwack- 
etts. But that could not have been. Paugus was 
later. 

Down near the river, another depression was known 
to mark the site of a "garrison, "or '-^ White Man's Fort", 
built for defence against Paugus and such. Tradition 
was that a skull — the worse for a bullet hole, and part of 
a rusty fire-lock, had been dug up in the center of this 
depression. 

The old homestend was quite isolated by surrounding 
forest or river, so that the lads who lived there were in 
a world by itself, and dependent on their own wit for 



IL> NUTTING GENEALOGY 

amusement. And they lived in the atmosphere of the 
old times. Especially, in the times of the old Indian 
troubles. My next elder brother, a lad always in the 
lead among his mates, assumed the role of Paugus, the 
great chief. For want of other timber, I was obliged to 
"be" his whole tribe of Pigwacketts. This led to many 
comical results, and the memor}' of these plays led me 
many years after (with my brother's help) to make of 
them a series of Boy-stories, for which there is still some 
inquiry. 



Forth from tliis old home, on the morning after Paul 
Revere's Ride, came Corporal William, my grandfather, 
(in response to "The Alarm" ) to march to Lexington. 
He was about twenty-five years old. His father, the 
Lieutenant William, was with him, though past milita- 
ry age, and, as it now appears, not enrolled in any com- 
pany- . He was only a volunteer Minute-man, though 
he went with his son. 

As thev started, thev heard the drums and fifes of the 
Pepperell men, who were just coming down Primus 
hill, to cross the River. They would pass through 
Groton. They were commanded by Captain John Nut- 
ting, and several other Nuttings were in the company. 
It would be a trifle farther to the rendezvous, to go with 
the Pepperell men — but who could resist the call of 
the martial music, and the louder call of kindred valor ? 

At least, the Corporal and his father did not resist; 
and so it came to be the family tradition that "they 
n-iarched to Lexington with Captain John and the Pep- 
perell men." The truth being, that they marched with 
them as far as the rendezvous at the village, where the 
Corporal joined his own command. 

After the affair at Lexington, the Lieutenant seems 



JONATHAN NUTTING'S ACCOUNT BOOK 13 

to have returned home. The younger man remained 
for some time in the service, as did Captain John and his 
company and many others. 

It is said that the Corporal about this time made an 
honorable surrender, and at the same time won a glo- 
rious victory. Not in a military way — unless the meet- 
ing came about through a visit of the other party to the 
camp, concerning which I am not informed. But in 
some way he surrendered to the charms of one Susanna, 
a youthful widow and the daughter of Colonel Joseph 
French of Dunstable, who ma}^ have been there with 
the Dunstable men. He counted it a great victory, 
however, and so persisted to regard the matter for the 
whole of his life. 

The wedding followed some time after and settled the 
question of pedigree for a hundred or two of us. And 
about the time of the wedding, young William seems to 
have thought that the founding of a new family might 
naturally lead one to find out something about those 
whose previous ventures had made his own possible. 

The Centennarian (as he afterwards came to be 
known) was then very near achieving that title. He 
was brother to Jonathan, young William's grandfather, 
deceased. Jonathan had left a careful Family Record, 
in the quaint little home-made volume alluded to above. 
It is called" Jonathan Nutting, His Accompt Book",* 
and besides the Family Record which is its chief value, 
it is interesting as showing the current prices at that 
date of most of the common articles. Its pocket pre- 
serves many little business papers, among which are re- 
ceipts which release "all debts and dues, from the be- 
ginning of the world unto this daye". 

* See illustrations, pages 66, 67. 



14 XUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

This Accompi Book, whose earhest date is 1717, had 
come into the hands of the Centennarian on the decease 
of Jonatlian, and seems to have put him also upon gen- 
ealogical studies. In consequence when young Wil- 
liam resorted to him he was supposed to be or to have 
been personally acquainted in some degree with every 
descendant of John 1, our founder in America. How- 
ever this may have been, it seems certain that some en- 
tire families were omitted from the list which was made 
u]3. Yet it is stated that the memory, and in fact all the 
faculties of John 3 (the Centennarian) were at this time 
in full vigor. 

William took down from the lips of the old man all 
that he could relate, and added whatever he could by 
his own inquiries. As onh' four generations had then 
])assed ( John 3 being sole survivor of the third, and Wil- 
liam being of the fifth) the task was then comparatively 
easy. And on the whole this "Early Genealogy" (re- 
ferred to by the letters "E. G.") has proven very reliable 
and correct, with the exception of the strange omissions 
already mentioned. Without it, the present work w^ould 
have been almost impossible. 

As William grew^ older, he added to the lists. When 
his own children left him, he made for them more or less 
complete copies. Some slight discrepancies crept into 
these, which however were easily corrected. Some of 
these copies wore out, and even the fragments were 
lost. I have two or three — all in tatters, and none quite 
]jerfect. The best (preserved with the Account Book) 
lacks one important section, whose items I have been 
obliged t(j supply (with an interrogation) from memor}' 
of other copies, now lost. 

I first saw one of these copies when a boy of four- 
teen, in Michigan. I eagerly transcribed it, and so be- 



JOHN, THE FOUNDER 15 

gan, unconsciously, the task which now after more than 
sixty years years results in the [present volume. 

During all this time, Nuttings who have chanced to 
meet me will bear witness that I have faithfully cjues- 
tioned them as to their family connection. At first, 
the memoranda thus secured seemed almost hopeless, 
save in lines nearly related to my own. As the years 
went on, and fragment after fragment took shape, I 
found that the fragments began to fit into each other, 
like the sections of a puzzle. And, what at first seemed 
very unlikely, I found that virtually all the lines point- 
ed in one direction. All, or nearly all, were directly 
traceable to Groton, Mass. And nearly all showed di- 
rect connection with John, whom I think entitled to be 
called John The Founder. 

True, there are exceptions: links are sometimes miss- 
ing. In one important instance, a line seems to begin in 
Northern Vermont. But that beginning dates at the 
time when Vermont was rapidly being settled from 
Massachusetts, and when several families of Groton or- 
igin went thither. And in the case alluded to there 
were honorable reasons for private removal. At the 
same time we find at Groton a youth who in name and 
age very exactly corresponds to the settler in Vermont 
alluded to. Demonstration is impossible, so far. But 
the presumption is not far from proof. 

In two or three cases, the early death of parents has 
left persons without knowledge beyond a certain point. 
But all are within a short distance of Groton, and to 
provide for these there are plenty of Groton lines of 
which the record stops short at an early date. 

I have testimony on which I rely, to the effect that 
about the middle of the last century one David Nutting, 
who had been chief shepherd upon the large Oxford- 



16 XUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

shire farm of my informant's father, came to America, 
setthng somewhere in New York. It was further stated 
that this David had a son in the Methodist ministry. 
I have sought this family in vain. 

Very lately, a vague rumor comes to me that in Cal- 
ifornia somewhere, is a family which hails from Ireland. 
There have been Nuttings in Ireland since 1594 — at 
which date also there was a Sir Godfrey Nutting in 
Oxfordshire. But I have not been able to get in touch 
with any modem stock in America. 

From no family have I received any tradition that 
points to an independent origin. I am reasonably sure 
that we are all of one descent. Demonstrably, in near- 
Iv every case: almost certainly in all. 

One of the less pleasing duties of the genealogist is to 
clear away the myths which somehow gain credence in 
connection with all merely floating family histories. 
At first I accepted some of these. I believed, and no 
doubt am responsible for the belief in others, that our 
Founder came to America with a grant from the Crown 
of an immense tract out of which Groton was taken as 
a small part. Careful inquiry reduces this to the sim- 
ple fact that he first took shares in the new town of 
Chelmsford, and later in that of Groton, in which he 
had a moderate interest. The grant was to the Mas- 
sachusetts Colony, whose General Court re-granted the 
territory of Chelmsford and Groton as of some other 
towns. 

Not to mention other stories, the latest and most in- 
teresting is the Governor's Island Story. This has 
come to me within the last year, from several indepen- 
dent and widely separated parties. 

The story is, that as early as 103:.', many years before 
liis marriage (which has hitherto been our eailiest es- 



THE GOVERNOR'S ISLAND LEGEND 17 

tablished date) our Founder, or at least some one bear- 
ing his name, came to New Amsterdam, and bought 
from the Indians the large island now known as Gover- 
nor's Island. That the island, from his ownership, was 
long called Nutten's or Nuttin's Island. That after 
some years he sold it to the government, when the name 
was changed to Governor's Island. That after the 
sale he went to Massachusetts, settling at Groton. 

iVs soon as this story came to my knowledge, I has- 
tened to interest our clansfolk in New York in its in- 
vestigation. The first of those who undertook this 
search was Mrs Lucius H. Nutting, who had already 
proved most helpful, but her effort was ended by her 
sudden and lamented decease. Another took up the 
work, and the first authority consulted seemed to throw 
some doubt upon the story. The History of New York, 
while admitting that the island bore our name (or some- 
thing like it — Nooten or Nutten), says that the name 
was given because of the numerous nut-trees which 
covered the whole island. 

The question occurs, whether this may or may not be 
simply an' attempt to explain the name. Farther in- 
quiries are being made, and as soon as a definite con- 
clusion can be reached, we shall inform our readers. 

Some thirty years since, I had the pleasure of becom- 
ing acquainted by correspondence, with Miss Mary 
Eliza Nutting, then a teacher in Boston, and a proof- 
reader and translator for Litteh's Living Age. She 
also was pursuing genealogical studies, and the corres- 
pondence was to mutual profit. She had heard of the 
Early Genealogy, but supposed it lost. I was able to 
furnish her with it. In turn, as she was of the Ebene- 
zer Branch, and lived near Cambridge, while I was of 
the line of John, the eldest son of the Founder, she could 



18 NUTTIXO GENEALOGY 

tell nie much that I could hardh' have learned concern- 
ing the descendants of the two }'ounger sons, Ebenezer 
and Jonathan. 

Our correspondence was ended l)y lier illness, which 
temiinated in her lamented deatli. But all that she 
had learned had already been communicated to me, 
and it is incorporated in this volume. 

At different times I have desired to put what had 
been learned in print, lest it be lost, but have been de- 
terred partl>- l)y the pressure of other duties, partly by 
the expense, which I could not risk. About two years 
since, however, Mr George W. Nutting, a young rela- 
tive in Texas, not only urged publication, but offered a 
small advance toward the expense. Others readily re- 
sponded, until it seemed safe to venture — these contri- 
butors taking the risk of being partially repaid from 
sales. Without this guarantee we could not have gone 
forward. To give the labor required for compiling the 
work w'as my part. 

I should like to mention l)y name all those who in va- 
rious ways have rendered indispensable help in the un- 
dertaking. Many have sent in names and facts of great 
value. Others have made suggestions of a business na- 
ture, or have taken the trouble to find out the best 
means and the best style for publishing. One has kind- 
h' acted as treasurer. And many have helped by sub- 
scribing for copies of the work. 

Finall\', we have the good fortune to find among our 
own number a jjublisher who will not only do the work 
reasonably and in the best style, but who will feel a per- 
sonal interest in the success of the enterprise. Curious- 
ly, he also first saw the light in that same old dwelling 
of which we have spoken — making the fifth generation 
sheltered beneath its roof. 



As to our Name 

Miss Mary devoted some effort to learning the origin 
and significance of ^ our family name. The experts in 
such matters whom she consulted, were agreed that the 
first syllable is simply the Saxon or Scandinavian given- 
name, Canute, or Knut. Then, if the final syllable be 
"Ing" and Saxon, it would be equivalent to "son". 
This would place us with the Johnsons, Robinsons, and 
all the great company of the "sons." 

But the "Ing" may be a contraction for "Ing-a" : and 
then it would signify a cave, or Castle. "Knut of the 
Castle" certainly sounds better. One authority sugges- 
ted that the name was Danish, and that Knut Inga 
was doubtless a viking; who, landing on the eastern 
shore of England, and (with some flourishing of ugly 
weapons) announcing himself to the astonished natives 
as KNUT INGA {i.e., Knut Inga, the Ter-r-i-blel) he 
so frightened the said natives that they ever after reck- 
oned his two names as one, and scared their children 
into good behavior by threatening them with K N UT- 
INGA — as our English cousins afterward used the 
name of OLD BONY! I vote for this Viking theory. 
It sounds well. 

But since Miss Mary went from us, I chanced to speak 
of the matter to a Norwegian. He was a university man 
in his own country. And he at once said, "Your name 
is certainly Norse. ' ' He offered to introduce me to a fam- 
ily of Ingas, who he said would recognize me as a long 
lost relative. And among them he spoke of a young 
giant, Knut, who from his description I judged might 
stand for a twentieth-Century replica of our original 
KNUT THE VIKING. 



20 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

But he demurred entirely to the delinitiun cdready 
given, of "Inga". It signifies, he said, ''green, grassy 
lajid" . England he said, was not so named from the 
Angles, but because it is a land of green grass. In proof 
of his contention, he cited the very pronunciation of the 
name. We do not call it Angland, nor yet England, 
but always Ingland, — that is, Inga-land, the land of 
green meadoivs. 

I confess, his argument seemed good. But since we 
ha\'e a choice, I still vote for the Viking. 



And Whence Came We? 

This wrtS another question which appealed to Miss 
Mary. There was a rumor that our Founder was from 
Nottinghamishire. That was soon disposed of. Then 
Miss Mary favored Yorkshire. And some one suggested 
Kent. No one mentioned Oxfordshire. But I have 
lately come upon what seems good evidence that as 
long ago as the middle of the 1 6th century (say as ear- 
ly as 1570 or thereabout), there was in Oxfordshire a 
Sir Godfrey Nutting, Baronet; and that in 1594 his son, 
Sir Robert Nutting of the Inner Temple, London, was 
granted a coat of arms. And I seem to have farther 
proof that at this early date there were Nuttings in Ire- 
land, near Dublin, and also in Suffolk, England, the two 
families being closely related. As already noted, the 
only recent Nuttings known to have come from En- 
gland, were from Oxfordshire. Here in Florida, curi- 
ously, and only last year, I obtained the address of Sir 
John G. Nutting of St. Helen's near Dublin, Ireland, 
and hoped I had found a descendant of the Irish family 
already alluded to. But it proved that Sir John's title 
was a modern one, and that his parents had died so ear- 
ly that he only knew that his father was from England 
(Bristol, I believe). He could tell us nothing of the 
English history of the family. 

The only promising clue I have come upon, I found 
in the Life and Letters of Governor John Winthrop, by 
his descendant, Hon. R. C. Winthrop of Boston. The 
home of the Winthrops in England was at Groton Ma- 
nor, Suffolk, of which John Winthrop was lord before 
he came to America. 



22 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

It appears in this Life, that when Adam Winthrop 
was succeeded in the lordship of the manor by his son 
John, one John Nutton, a long-time tenant of "one 
moiety of the ... lands of Groton Manor", delivered up 
to the new lord his copy-hold deed of the lands so held, 
and the new lord immediately gave him a new deed of 
the same tenor, granting said lands to him and to his 
heirs and assigns forever, upon certain conditions as to 
rent. The deed so executed is signed by John Nutting 
(Nutton is a very common variant for Nutting, in all 
old documents), and was kept among the Winthrop pa- 
pers. Another copy was signed by Winthrop, and 
delivered to the tenant. 

Other mention is made of this John Nutton (who in 
the deed is noted as John Nutton, Senior), showing that 
he and his famih' were somewhat more than mere ten- 
ants. (3n a certain occasion John Nutton is sent to 
Dublin on business with the brother of John Winthrop, 
who had settled "near Dublin" in 1594. (The deed al- 
luded to was executed in KilS.) John Winthrop ju- 
nior was a student at Dublin at the time of the errand 
of John Nutton thither. And in a letter to his son, the 
future Governor sends salutations to "my god-daughter 
Susanna Nutton". 

After Winthrop has been made Governor, has em- 

l)arked for America, and is waiting for a fair wind, in 

writing adieus to his wife, who remains behind for a 

' time, he mentions the Nutton family among the friends 

to whom he sends regards. 

Hoping for light on our English history I wrote sev- 
eral years since to the then Rector of Groton Manor, 
asking for any records which might be of interest to us. 
I received a very courteous reply, in which it was stated 
that the Rec<jrds contained no entry of the name Nutton, 



WHENCE CAME WE 23 

Nutting, or Nuton; (I had asked for the name Neuton, 
Newton, or Nutton, also. ) 

If this reply is correct, it implies that in two well- 
known and long-resident families of Groton Manor — 
large tenants, too, — either there were, in at least thirty 
years, no marriages, births, baptisms, or funerals, or 
they were strangely left unrecorded. I prefer to think 
the reply mistaken. 

Arrived on this side of the water, w^e find John Nut- 
ton (doubtless the John junior of 1618) among the 
first to become a proprietor and settler of the new town 
of Groton, of which the chief promotor was Dean Win- 
throp (whom, upon our supposition, he must have 
known from infancy) while the town itself was named 
from the old English home. This, certainly, is what 
we should naturally expect, if our Groton Manor theory 
were correct. In the absence of any certainity, this 
theory seems fairly tenable. 



Concerning a Nutting Coat of Arms 

Nearly every family among the early settlers of Mass- 
achusetts could produce its Coat of Arms. Had our 
Founder that standing? I remember that among the 
treasures hidden in the secret drawer of my grandfath- 
er's ancient desk, was a large sheet, on which was a 
Xutting Coat of Arms. On the same sheet was also 
that of my mother's family, the Keeps. 

(3f this drawing, which was highly colored, my memo- 
ry is not very distinct. There was certainly a tree, 
"vert", and upon its trunk hung a "bugle, or". There 
were "hounds, courant", and something about a "leo- 
pard", I should think, a leopard's skin. The picture 
had disappeared before I was old enough to be interest- 
ed in it. On inquiry, years later, my older sister told 
me that it had been drawn by one Vinton or Brinton, 
a man who did transient jobs of paper-hanging and 
the like, and who had a fancy for coats-of-arms. But 
another relative thinks that the man was a real 
authority. 

From another quarter comes the story of a certain 
Sampler, said to have loeen wrought long ago by a little 
damsel of our name (said to have been Deborah, who 
later married Crowninshield) whose home was at Salem. 
Tliis sampler is said to have had on it the genuine Nut- 
ting Arms. But alas, I can find out nothing more con- 
cerning either the little damsel or the sampler. 

Some months since, the same mail brought a letter 
from Georgia, making earnest inquiry about a coat-of- 
arms, and another from California, giving what pur- 
])orts to be a description of the genuine article. I give 



A NUTTING COAT OF ARMS 25 

the description as I received it, premising that my edu- 
cation was so far neglected as to heraldry that I do not 
know whether the description is according to its rules. 

"He beareth ermine, fess azure, a leopard's face be- 
tween three arrows: gules, feathered argent. By the 
name of Nutting: granted Anno Domini 1594, to Sir 
Robert Nutting of the Inner Temple, London, son of 
Sir Godfrey Nutting of Oxfordshire, Bart. And de- 
scendeth to his family." 

This sounds as if authentic, and if our Groton-Manor 
theory be correct, it is easy to suppose that the arms are 
ours; for there was constant connection between the 
Inner Temple and Groton, and for aught we know, John 
Nutton of Groton (senior) may have been a son of this 
Sir Robert. While we are guessing, we may as well 
guess pleasant things. 

The genuineness of the coat of arms might be tested, 
no doubt, by application to the Herald's College, Lon- 
don. A handsome fee would pretty certainly bring a 
favorable answer. Or if any clansman were in Lon- 
don, he might look the matter up. The description 
above comes from Groton, though by way of California. 



Groton 

Our entire clan is entitled to look upon Groton, 
Middlesex County, Mass., as Old Home. Many liave 
never seen the place, and many will never visit there. 
This is not the Histor\' of Gn^ton. nor have we room 
for anything like a full description. Yet an outline 
seems called for. 

"The place called Peta -pa-wag" (variously spelled 
Petapaug, Petapogue, Petabogue, etc.) lay along both 
sides of the River which the English had named the 




Glimpse of the Nashua 



Lancaster, but which ha])pily s(X)n resumed and retained 
its more musical Indian name of Naslnia. How extensive 
may have been the region included by tlic Indians as be- 



LEGEND OF GIBBET HILL 27 

longing to Petapaug, there is no means of knowing. The 
new plantation, named Groton, from the old home of 
the Winthrops(and probably of the Nuttings) at Gro- • 
ton Manor in England, was somew^hat more than nine 
miles in length by nearly seven in width, according to 
the original survey. Including certain gores and sa- 
lients, it had an area of nearly 41,000 acres. Along the 
Nashua and its tributaries, lay the fertile "interval" 
land which mainly attracted the settlers. Much of this 
land is annually renewed like that of Egypt, by alluvial 
deposit. The Indians had some of it under cultivation. 

From the River, the land rises gradually till it reaches 
the hills of Pepperell and Shirley on the west (both at 
first included in Groton), while on the east side, nearly 
parallel with the River, lies a somewhat lofty range of 
hills, many of which are cultivated to their summits. 
The highest of these is Gibbet hill. It overlooks the 
modern village (at some distance), as it did the pioneer 
settlement. Let no visitor fail to note this hill. It 
shoulders and carries the most thrilling, romantic, and 
l^lc)od-curdling story in the town's history. Only a de- 
cade since, I heard this story related by a very aged 
resident, with evident faith in it as genuine histor}' . 

Once upon a time, as this story goes, a Dreadful Pi- 
rate was caught in Groton. Some say that he had wan- 
dered so far inland in order to hide the more securely a 
great pot of doubloons, his share of the proceeds of 
many a bloody capture on the high seas. Some say, he 
was one of Captain Kidd's men. Anyhow, he was 
caught, and of his guilt there was no doubt. vSo they 
set up a tall gibbet upon that high hill, in sight of the 
town, and there the wretch was hung. But not by his 
neck. Oh no. That would be too good for him. He 
was HUNG-IN-CHAINS! And there he was left to 




Gibbet Hill from the East 



*"■.*• '^('^i^r^ 




Gibbctt Hi!l from the West 



WE HOLD FAST TO THE LEGEND 29 

swing in the wind, until slow starvation, or the torture 
of the chains, should end his cursed existence! i\nd to 
deal with him somewhat more in accordance with his 
deserts, a loaf of bread (rye-and- Indian, no doubt) was 
so suspended that as it also swung in the wind, it would 
ever and anon strike against his famished lips, while 
the vile wretch could n(jt get a morsel of it ' 

Some say the pirate was black — which of course was 
an added crime. 

Strange to say, that Critical Spirit gf our times, which 
forbids William Tell to be taken seriously, and which 
has chopped George Washington's cherry-tree all to 
pieces, has dared to meddle with this story of Gibbet hill. 
It has been held that no such event ever took place. 
The whole thing was a half-remembered night-mare 
story, brought over by some foolish pioneer, and loaded 
bodily upon our poor innocent Gibbet hill because it 
stood convenient. Some such horror may have been 
enacted in old England, but in America — never! 

And indeed, I do not myself recall another instance of 
hanging in chains, in all American history. Our fa- 
thers certainly did hang men rather readily, but they 
were hanged with rope, in a civilized way. Even in this 
Twentieth Century we hear pretty often of hangings 
without due process of law, but in such cases it is always 
a rope that is used, and usually the victim is immediate- 
ly "riddled with bullets". Or the rope is omitted alto- 
gether, and — we are reminded of Elijah. But times 
have changed for the better, and nobody is ever hanged 
in chains, any more. 

All the same, I hold fast to the story of Gibbet hill. 
Criticism may be high, but Gibbet hill rises above it. 
For how could any one have managed to win a first be- 



30 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



liever for that story, if nothing of the kind had ever hap- 
pened ? And how can any one exphiin the undeniable 
fact that practically all the old residents of Groton truly 
1)elieved the story, and handed it down from generation 
to generation, with all its grewsome particulars, on the 
supposition that those who set the story going, knew 
that it had no foundation ? 

Besides, I myself have heard the horrible shrieks and 
groans of the poor Pirate, and the creaking and clank- 
ing of his chains — of a pitch-dark, boisterous March 
night! The hill is a mile from the village, yet I have 
heard the shrieks and groans from a still greater dis- 
tance — and have taken to my heels in sore fright. And 
how could a small boy have heard the shrieks, if there 
had never been any Pirate to shriek ? 

Do not fail to take note of Gibbet hill. 




The Old Groton Inn 



THE OLD GRAVEYARD 31 

And be sure to visit the old Groton Inn. At least a 
part of that building was standing when Jonathan was 
making the first shoe in Groton, in 1706. The old house 
has a special interest for nie, because it was my mother's 
youthful home, her father having long been mine host 
of that Inn. 

Visit also the old Graveyard, which now they call a 
cemetery. It once surrounded, or perhaps adjoined, the 
earliest Meetinghouse, burned by ye savages. I think 
the head-stone of Lieutenant William, my own great- 
grandfather, is the oldest of our name there, though 
probably the spot where he is buried is near to the 
graves of all the early generations. In a new country 
it always happens that many early graves are marked 
only by perishable memorials, which soon decay. I 
remember that in at least one instance, the opening of a 
new grave revealed the fact of an earlier and unknown 
burial. As you enter the cemetery from the east, the 
graves of our ancestors are at the right, part way up the 
pathway. 

As I recall the place, the memory of many a summer 
Sunday Nooning comes back to me. Between the 
Morning and Afternoon Service, even Puritan chil- 
dren were permitted to wander through that ancient 
God's acre, as it was supposed to be conducive to piety. 
I used to think the dead enjoyed reminding us how 
soon we were to lie down with them and "pay the debt 
that is to nature due". Many of the head-stones were 
cheerful with death's-head and cross-bones; others not 
much more so with attempts to represent cherubs. In 
my childhood this burial-place was sorely neglected. I 
feel distinctly grateful to those who now keep it so at- 
tractive and beautiful. 

I love the place, for there rests all that was mortal of 




Zara Patch in the Groton Cemetery 



LAKES OF GROTON 33 

my dear parents. After so long, even, tears are not far 
away as I recall my childish anguish when I saw them 
laid there — now more than sixty years ago. 

Visit at least two of the pretty lakes \yhich shine be- 
tween the hills of the old town — Baddycook,and Massa- 
poag. Baddycook is nearest, and in itself worth a visit. 
Its head waters bathe the northern foot of Gibbet hill, 
and large springs there now supply the town with water, 
the reservoir being on the hill. At the northern end of 
the lake lies the only tract of land identified as having 
belonged to our Founder. Miss Mary discovered so much, 
but could not trace its boundaries. Another, includ- 
ing part of Nod Farm, had its place at a spring called 
Naumux. (Tradition.) 

Massapoag, "Great Water," has had a curious his- 
tory. Originally it covered a thousand acres, and was 
"full of small islands". At its northern end it was re- 
tained only by a wide, sandy barrier, beyond which the 
land-surface fell some thirty feet. By permission, one 
Adams cut a channel across this barrier, and placed a 
mill to utilize the fall. 

But he did not secure his channel, and an unusual flood 
made short work of his mill, in a few hours lowering the 
lake thirty feet. This of course left the larger part of 
its late bed a mere desert of sand. In that condition 
it remained for perhaps a century and a half. Great 
pines sprang up and flourished, and nature tried hard 
to cover the waste. In my boyhood, a mineral spring 
was discovered at the edge of the remaining lake, and 
it made an excuse for a local watering-place, which for 
a time was popular. 

Later, as I am told, a Company took the old lake in 
hand, rebuilt and secured the ancient barrier, and now 
Massapoag is once more true to its early name. 




HoUingsworth's Bridge from the East 




Hollingsworth's Bridge from the West 



NOD FARM 



35 



And by all means visit the River. And since my old 
home lay not far from it — the farm being bounded by its 




Nod Farm, Home of Five Generations of Nuttings 

waters along the whole of one side, I will introduce you 
to my dear old friend and play-mate The Nashua, from 
thence. 

From the village, take the road which passes east of 
the old Cemetery, and so on to the North. You pass 
the site of the Meetinghouse burned by the Indians; 
the former homes of Captain Peter Nutting and his sons; 
the old Shattuck place, with its huge white willow that 
sprang from the cane thrust in the ground to mark the 
parting-place of two young lovers; you cross Nod Brook, 
which somehow gave the old home its name; and at 
length you come to a cross-road which seems to forbid 



36 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



farther progress northward. But you find a sort of 
woodpath among the trees, leading to a gate. This is 
what remains of a once open and well-traveled private 
road. 

The bridges are gone now, and the path bends east- 
ward, around the head of a clear spring l)r( x )k, ( )n whose 
northern Ixmk may be found some slight ruins of the 
old home which, as it was in 1843. figures in our illus- 
tration. From this spot pass directly west, along the 
Moat (or ancient bed of the River), and you will come 
to the River itself. If you have followed directions, 
you will now be at ''The Eddy", where the current paus- 
es and turns about to look at the lilies, before continuing 
westward on its wa\' anmnd the great bend, which we 







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The Right Place for a Swim 



THE NASHUA RIVER 



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knew as The Great Neck. Keep on until you come^ to 
the place where the stream bends again to the right — 
that is, toward the North, and there and then, if it be 
summer, just plunge in ! For that is the best swimmmg 
place. I seem to enjoy the cool waters with you. If 
you swim well, no caution is needed. If not, beware of 
the sudden depth below the ford. Several threatened 
tragedies were in my time averted just there by the 
prowess of my elder brothers. Towm-boys would not 
alwavs heed our warnins^s. 

When you have had 3^our swim, stand on the high 
bank and view the stream seriously. And be sure you 
see how attractive it is. Large enough for dignity, yet 




Another Glimpse of the Nashua 



3S 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



un\ too large for familiarity. Up near Lancaster they 
have built a wonderful dam, and the surplus water of 
this stream supplies Greater Boston. It is just the 
stream to become a boy's good friend, and to remain his 
friend even unto old age. Most rivers, they tell me, 
when revisited l)y old men who loved them in l)oyhood, 
have a trick of shrinking to half their remembered size. 
My Nashua is not that kind. Again and again have I 
gone back for a visit, and have found her just the 
stream I so well remembered. 

Please catch a few breams, or chubs, or perches — or 
})ossibly even a long pickerel, just for my sake, at the 
spots over which I used to swing my birchen pole, with 
its tempting angle-worm. 

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THE MODERN TOWN OF GROTON 39 

a good bunch of white hhes. In securing them, how- 
ever, remember that Nymphoea Odorata hghtly rests 
her foot upon — hquid peat. Lihes and angels may do 
that, but mortals may not. Doubtless several poles 
which we lads thrust down their whole length into that 
peat, are standing there to this day. Peat is a good 
preservative. 

As to the modern town, I leave that to be shown by 
its proud citizens of to-day. They will take you to 
Lawrence Academy (once plain old Groton Academy), 
and above all to Groton School, which already rivals 
Eton, and Harrow and Rugby, and all that sort. They 
will show you their Library and other institutions, and 
some notable dwellings. Groton is no mean town. 
Our clan has reason to be proud of it. 



I 



40 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

And now — 

We Really Begin. 

Thus far, as respects origins, places, and dates, we 
have had to be content with probabilities. Now, we 
come to authentic Records and Documents. 

a 1 JOHN NUTTING. Whether from Oxfordshire or 
from Suffolk, from Cambridge or from Groton Manor, 
our founder is certainly here in America, and in Mas- 
sachusetts Colony, on this 28th of August (0. S.)1650; 
for the Town Clerk of Woburn ( or Ooburn) wTites down 
plainly that this is the Founder's wedding day. That 
he is this day married to Sarah, daughter of Stephen 
Eggleton (which is thought to be a careless spelling for 
Eggleston or Egglestone). 

Her father, says tradition, is dead — died at sea, on the 
voyage from England. Did John's acquaintance with 
Sarah begin in the hour of her bereavement ? How in- 
teresting it wouldbe to know. There should have been 
a law requiring all intending founders of families to put 
the early romance of their lives on record. Then we 
should have known wiiether Sarah came to John empty- 
handed or no. Yet we may be sure enough without a 
Record that besides her own sweet self, endowed with 
"faculty", and all housewifely qualifications and vir- 
tues, she at least brought to John good store of snowy 
linen, spun and woven by her own hands, and at least 
one deep and fluffy feather-bed, of "live geese", plucked 
mayha]:) from her own birds, over seas. Her spinning- 
wheel also: I tliink John himself made her a loom, later. 
And we risk nothing in believing that this Sarah, fore- 
motljer of us all, was at the time the very best girl in the 
world. Jolm would certainly have told us so, only we 
were rather late in getting around to hear. 



THE REV. JOHN FISK'S NOTEBOOK 41 

The new home was first set up at Woburn, where 
Sarah had a sister, who either then was, or afterward 
became Mrs Blodgett. At the very first wedding an- 
niversary, a new voice rather faintly and waiHngly join- 
ed in the celebration. John Junior had just arrived in 
time. Two years later came James; and a year after 
that, Mary. Five mouths to feed. 

And it began to appear that for a man with a growing 
family Woburn was too old a place. It had been set- 
tled so long ago — several years, at least — that the Best 
Chances were all taken. Why not Go West ? For even 
so early was heard the Call of the West. 

True, the West was not far to seek. Fifteen miles, 
as the crow flies — that was all. And several of John's 
friends were going. James Parker, who was to be his 
life-long neighbor and intimate, and Isa. Lernet, and 
Simeon Thompson, these and others, all young men like 
himself, if not younger than he, for that matter, all were 
on the move. John added his name to the Petition, 
and went with them to the new plantation or town of 
Chelmsford, which like most new towns at the time, was 
so large that it was soon necessary to make several 
towns by dividing it. The western part of Chelmsford 
thus very soon became Westford, and so remains. 

For what little we know of the life of John and Sarah 
and their growing brood at Chelmsford we are indebted 
to the Note Book, kept by the first pastor of Chelmsford, 
The Reverend John Fiske. This Note Book, again, 
would perhaps never have been heard of by our gene- 
ration, except for the publication of extracts from it, by 
Dr. Samuel A. Green, the honored Secretary of the Mass. 
Historisal Societv: himself a Groton man, and an en- 
thusiast in all that pertains to Groton History. All old 



42 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

families of Groton and vicinity owe very much to Dr. 
Green. 

I give a few of the quaint entries in Pastor Fiske's 
Note Book, relating to our Founder and his family. 

TJicir Admission to the Chiirdi 

"29 0/4*. '.■)(). (1()56.)" 

''This day tcstini: was giucn 
touching Jo: Nutting & his wife, by Isa. Lernet, Sim: 
Thompson, and Abram Parker.^' 

"13 of 5. '56 there was joyned to the Church Jo : Nut- 
ting, after his Relation made,.. as sent giuen to the pfes- 
sion of faith & CovH of the Church. 

''It. Jo: Nuttins wife, Jir Relation being repeated by 
the officer of the Church..'' 

"Three of Jo: Nuttings Children baptized, — John, 
James, Mary. 3o/(), '56." 

(Date uncertain) Josiah Nutting, Br Nuttings 
child, baptized.'' 

"13 or 12, '59, Sarah Nutting, dau. of Br and sister 
Nutting, baptized." 

Both these died in infancy, and are not reckoned in 
the later lists. 

The Remove to Groton 

About tlie time Jc^hn and Sarah went to Chelmsford, 
Dean Winthrop and others petitioned the Great and 
General Court for the laying out of another new "plan- 
tation" at "the place called Petapawag". This tract 
bordered upon Chelmsford for part of its extent, and, as 
already described, lay along both sides of the Nashua 
for some nine miles. It included some of the finest "in- 
terval lands" in the region, with much other, and some 
very poor and .sandy land. Jf our theory as to the home 



THE REMOVE TO GROTON 43 

of John Nutting at Groton Manor, England, and the 
friendship between the Winthrops and the Nuttings 
there be correct, we should have naturally expected 
John to be one of the first to join this new settlement, 
especially as it was to be called Groton, after the old 
home. But though the two plantations (Chelmsford and 
Groton) were begun at nearly the same time, the death 
of the surveyor who was laying out the Groton tract 
prevented any orderly settlement. Still worse, cer- 
tain parties without any legal title settled upon the best 
lands, taking what pleased them, and making any fair 
distribution impossible. It is therefore not strange 
that our ancestor did not at once attach himself to the 
Groton movement, but turned aside to Chelmsford. 

But in 1661, the General Court took hold in earnest 
to rectify what had been wrong. The survey was com- 
pleted, and the grasping squatters were forced to re- 
duce their holdings within just proportions. The way 
was now open to our ancestor and his friends. Ac- 
cordingly, three families of those who had gone from 
Woburn to Chelmsford began to think of a second re- 
moval to Groton. 

Perhaps to their surprise, they found that the Church 
claimed to have certain rights in the matter. To us it 
would seem strange for a member about to remove from 
one town to another, to be expected to ask leave from 
the church. In those days it was quite different. 
Each new settlement was in reality, so far as all local 
interests were concerned, a small nation by itself. Its 
voting citizens were the members of the church — none 
others. And upon these the town rested for defence 
and for up-building. Solemn vows bound these to mu- 
tual defence and helpfulness. When therefore three 
leading families proposed to leave Chelmsford, it was 



44 XUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

no small matter. And as it seemed that such a move 
was contrary to the covenant above mentioned, we can- 
not blame the Church for calling the departing mem- 
bers to account. This was done, but it should seem 
that the removing brethren themselves proposed it. 

"On tJiis day the tlircc Brc: J a: Par- 
ker, J a: Fiskc, Jo: Xiitting, ppoimded to the clmrclr. 
That they, haiieing some iJioughts and inclinations to a 
Remoue, desired to ppound it to the church, that {as they 
may see God to make a ivay for them) they may haue the 
church's loueing leauc so to doe,&their prayers for them, 
for a blessing of God vpo: their vnder taking." 

''The pastor. ..put it to vote, to see if. .they should giuc 
their grounds...." 

'' Heerpo: scarce a man in tJie cJiurcJi but p'sently said, 
* The grounds The grounds !' 

"7?r Parker.. answrd...tho they had each of them so: 
ptic. grounds,... in the main they were all agreed,... in gnl 
it is because of several things p'ss upo: their sp'ts as in 
reference to church administration. ...and added, tJuU if 
he could enjoy all ordin: and administration as accord- 
ing to rule, he for his pte would not Remoue." 

" Heerpo: much ivas said by one &: otJir." 

''Bro Nutting pposed one ground further of his one 
{own) ptic, viz, ''The inconveniences of Jiis p'sent situa- 
tion: that he could not Jielp liimself, for in remoueing to 
Jiis remote accommodations . Jiaueing sevral smale chldr. 
he shoitld much depiue himself or wife of tJic ordin : by 
that means, and sought rather the setting of himself com- 
fortably for the outer man, nigli to the Meetinghouse." 

Other meetings were held, and discussion often be- 
came heated. 



ORIGINAL ACCOMODATIONvS OF JOHN NUTTING 45 

''After much Agitation,..ca: to this Result for answr. 
That the case was doubtful to us at pre sent... {hut if the 
brethren) shall in the meane time setle them in their 
pposed ivay... we shall leauc the matter ivith God." 

Just when the actual removal took place is not ascer- 
tained. The three brethren were present and voted at 
a meeting on the 23d of December '61, after which there 
is no mention of them until letters are granted them to 
unite with the church at Groton. 



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Original Accomodations of John Nutting 



The "remote accommodations" of which John Nut- 
ting complained are supposed to be the homestead now 
occupied by our clansman Elmer Nutting and his sister 
Mrs Amy Nutting Irish, who by the way has been at 



46 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

much pains and some expense to secure snap-shots of 
local bits of scenery connected with oiir early history in 
Westford and Groton. This property, it is said, has 
never been out of the hands of the Nutting family. It 
is near the modem village of Graniteville, and in West- 
ford. But Westford was once a part of Chelmsford. 
The place would certainly be inconveniently far from 
the site of the original First Church at Chelmsford. 

From the mention of his wife in the matter, Miss 
Mary inferred that our ancestor was, for his times, un- 
usually thoughtful of Sarah. It is pleasant to think he 
was a kind and loving husband — but it would be hard 
to find any more loving or thoughtful epistles than those 
which passed between Puritan husbands and wives in 
those very times. 

Sometime in 1 (j() 1 ,we may suppose that the ' ' Remoue" 
was accomplished. The distance was so slight that very 
likely it may have been gradual — the household part- 
ly at "the accommodations", and partly at the new 
home, "nigh to the Meetinghouse", at Groton. In 
time a grandson seems to have taken the Westford place 
and so it continued in the family. 

There is recorded a vote, making our ancestor sexton 
or janitor of the Meetinghouse at Groton, as he had been 
at Chelmsford. 

It is thus recorded in Dr. Green's Early Records 
of Groton. Massachusetts, 1662-1678, Groton, 1879: 

Sep: 21 :()3 It is agreed by ye Towne with John Nuttin 
& voted that he the said John shall keepe cleanc the 
meeting house this ye{ar) or cause it to be kept cleene & 
for his labors he is to h{ave) Jorrteen sJiUlings. 

This office was not a menial one, for in 1()()8 Joseph 



JOHN NUTTING AS A TOWN OFFICER 47 

Parker was chosen to the same position at the same 
salary. 

Already John Nutting had been recorded here as 
having a will he was ready to express. 

{Ju) nc 21 (16)63 Its agreed by the Towne and 
manifested by vote that Mr. Willard if he accept of it 
shall be their minester as long as he lives wc Mr. Willard 
accepts Except a manifest providenc of God a pears 
to take him off. 

These persons following doe desent from the former 
vot Richard. Sawtell. Samuell Woods. James Parker. 
John Nutting, James ffiske. 

Afterward we find these entries: 

3 Due to James ffiske &. J oh. Nuttin twenty shillings 
for laying out the hie-way to Chelmsford when they haue 
perfited the ivork ivc they promise to doe as soone as they 
can. 

They must have done it well, for on page 18 it is 
recorded that John Nutting got his ten shillings. 

( Nov) em. . . .63 

1 William Martin Sergeant Parker Ric. Blud Wm. 
Lakin & John Nuttin are for this yeare Chosen Select 
men. 

This was the highest civil office in the town, and he 
was elected to it again Oct. 11, 1667 and Oct. 15, 1669. 
The task could scarcely have been more difficult than 
that set to other men at this election: 

Item, Saml Wood, & Nath. Lawrence chosen to s{ee) 
that hogs bee legall. 

In 1668 he was chosen constable. We read: 



48 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

the 19 of the second month 1069 A Rate maycd by the 
select men for helerica bridg Contaying the sum sixtene 
pounds put noiv into the h{ands) of John nuttinge 
Counstable. 

. . month (1()())9. . . . Ratte mayd for the . . . Jownes 
dets the sume. . . .pounds sixeteine shillings and. . . .put 
into the hands of John nu{tting.) 

A Countrie Ratte ptit into the ]i{ands) of John nutting 
Counstable for this yeare 1()(')9 being the sum tenn pounds 
sixtieiH' sJiillings. 

"The 1.5 of the 10 month 69". 

Same meeting were chosen {John P)age and John 
Nutting by the {town) to see that Mr Willard haue 
maintenance duly and tndy payd Jiim and that they 
bring the town gencrall acquit a nee: 

i )n Nov. lo, \()7'2 the town meeting voted: 

for pay for a woalfes head to John Nutting 10 

On March 7, l()72-73: 

Also agreed upon and by vote declared that these 
seuerall psels of land here specified shall from hence 
forward lye comon. 

1 ^4 peice of Comon land about the meeting house 
Bounded by John Nuting Samell Kemp James Rober- 
sun Timothy cooper Walter Skinner and the hye way. 

( )n Dec. 10, 1()73, we find among the officers elected: 

ffor Surveyers 

Richard holden and Serg Lakin 
John Page John nutting Se 

This shows that John 2 must already be in evidence, 
as is further shown by the election Dec. 11, 1674 

for viewers of fences John Nutting sene and William 
Creenc. 



JOHN NUTTING'S ACRE-RIGHTS 49 

A daughter, Sarah (the first of that name having de- 
ceased), and two sons, Ebenezer & Jonatlian, were born 
to John and Sarali; and John 2 tlie eldest of the four 
surviving sons, married in 1674, two years before the 
burning of the town. We may suppose that the years 
passed uneventfully, in the ordinary pursuits of a pio- 
neer farmer. If there is any foundation for the Naumux 
Spring tradition, it is likely that an outlying farm was 
occupied there, with some sort of a shelter. But the 
instinct of mutual defence would probably lead all the 
settlers to live near together, at the village. 

In the matter of worldly gear, at least, the relative 
position of our ancestor among his fellows may be rated 
according to his "acre-rights". The acre-right is an 
ancient Saxon device for representing one's proportion- 
al interest in propert}^ or privileges owned by a town- 
community in common. It may be found fully de- 
scribed in Green's History of the English People. As 
the system in common use, and well understood, it was 
very naturally transferred to New^ England, though 
its unfitness for the new conditions soon became evident. 
The poorest Original Proprietor of Groton had "a one- 
acre right". James Parker, the w^ealthiest, had "a 
fifty-acre right". John Nutting, in accordance with 
the middle position which his family had always seemed 
to occupy, had "a seventeen-acre right". About four 
hundred "acre-rights" were sold, first and last, and as 
the domain which they covered contained about 41,000 
acres, the single acre-right would entitle the owner to 
somewhat more than 54 acres of this land "upon divi- 
sion". 

As hov/ever this land varied in value from the exceed- 
ingly fertile "interval" along the streams, to the nearly 
worthless sandy plains, which could produce nothing 



50 NUTTING CxENEALOGY 

more than scrub-pines or a scanty crop of winter rye, 
this mere siirface-diyision does not rightly show one's 
real rights. His acre-rights signified his proportional 
interest; so that if his allotment covered lands of small 
value, the area must be increased accordingly. In 
many instances it is on record that such received as high 
as four or five acres to one of the more valuable lands. 
Counting all lands of equal value, the seventeen-acre 
right of John Nutting would entitle him to somewhat 
more than 900 acres of land, "upon division". If the 
fan"iil_\' tradition has any foundation, a large part of 
what he actually held was of the poor quality, which 
would entitle him to a correspondingly large area. In 
this way only would it have been possible for him to 
own, for instance, the great tract extending from 
the Naumux Spring to the River, — supposing that 
he did own it. A small part of his land was "interval", 
even on this supposition. 

However, it must be noted that the full effects of the 
acre-right were only realized on the supposition that 
all the territory was actually divided between the 
several Proprietors. For several reasons, this could 
never occur. Large concessions must be appropriated 
to highway use, and other large tracts donated to se- 
cure the erection of saw-mills, grist-mills, and the like 
and for the bridging of the River and other streams. 
A generous provision was to be made for the minister 
and the cliurch, also. So that before any final "division" 
could l)e made, the acreage owned in common was very 
materially lessened. Especially as the highwa3^s were 
often a hundred feet wide. 

Furthermore. Tliere was never an}'' idea of a com- 
plete division. At first, each received a "house-lot" at 
or near the village. This allotment could not by law 



JOHN NUTTING AS A LANDHOLDER 51 

exceed ten acres, to the wealthiest After that the 
natural grass-lands or meadows — mostly marsh-lands 
of course — whence in time "meadow" came to be sy- 
nonymous with "marsh", were carefully divided in 
due proportion to acre-rights — some of the allotments 
being very small. Beyond these divisions, each man 
seems to have selected such small tracts of timber, up- 
land, or interval, as pleased him and were still unclaim- 
ed, always in proportion to his acre-rights. The no- 
tion of a large farm, in one body, does not seem to have 
been entertained at all. The settlers had been accus- 
tomed to this petty division of lands in the old country, 
and naturally perpetuated it. In this way many be- 
came possessed of a large number of these small hold- 
ings, scattered widely all through the great tract called 
the town. James Parker had more than fifty such 
holdings. As the bounds were usually trees or stones, 
the former of which were perishable, and the latter not 
easily distinguishable, it was not long before the de- 
scriptions of these holdings became much entangled, or 
entirely lost. It is now very difficult to identify more 
than a few of the more important. 

Miss Mary found evidence of the ownership by our 
Founder of a tract in the North end of Baddycook, but 
could not learn its bounds. It is of tradition also that 
he owned considerable tracts west of the River, in what 
soon became Pepperell. These, in the division between 
John 2 and James, seem to have fallen to the latter. 
But where, or of what extent or value, has not been 
learned. 

It would seem that John Nutting, while not perhaps 
a recognized leader among the settlers, was a man gen- 
erally esteemed. His home became one of the forti- 
fied "garrisons" to which his neighbors resorted when 



NUTTINO GENEALOGY 




Site of Well at John Nutting's Garrison 



danger threatened. This naturally implies that he be- 
came the officer in command of such fighting-men as 
were among them.* And this again has its bearing in 
determining the (juestion hereafter to be considered, 
as to his death. 



* I have just found that he was a corporal. 



THE BURNING OF GROTON 53 

About thirteen years passed, and then came the In- 
dian troubles, cuhninating in the destruction of the set- 
tlement, and, without doubt, the death of the Founder. 

The Burning of Groton 

It is hardly necessary to remind ourselves that when 
the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, it was with only 
friendly intentions toward the Indians. They very 
soon secured the friendship of Massasoit, the most in- 
fluential Sachem of the region, and made with him- a 
hrm treaty of alliance. This condition lasted during 
the lifetime of the chief, and for some time after. Dur- 
ing this period white civilization was pushing into the 
wilderness in every direction, the settlers usually, as at 
Groton, purchasing the claims of the Indians of the vi- 
cinity by the payment of values satisfactory to them, 
if not of great intrinsic worth. 

But at length one of the sons of Massasoit, who had 
received the English name of Philip, gained sufficient 
intelligence to perceive wdiither all this was tending. 
He saw that in a short time all the lands of the Indians 
would be taken by the white men, however friendly. 
The Indian would be obliged to take refuge in the West, 
already fully occupied according to Indian modes of life, 
and for the most part by tribes hostile to his own. 

li was necessary that the intruding whites he driven out. 
Realizing the magnitude of the task, Philip sought to 
unite all the tribes of the region for the supreme effort. 
As so often occurs, his plans were betra^^ed, and active 
hostilities began before he had intended. 

Settlement had moved forward by different detach- 
ments, so to speak — one line directl}^ westward from the 
Bay towards the Connecticut, and up along its course., 
and another, with which we are most concerned, in a 



o4 XUTTING GENEALOGY 

northwesterly direction. On the frontier of this latter 
series of settlements, Lancaster, Groton, and Chelms- 
ford were the exposed points. West of these, all was 
Indian territory until near the Connecticut. 

Mutterings of the coming storm began to be heard 
from all quarters. The settlers began to prepare. 
Five of the dwellings of the pioneers were fortified by 
surrounding them with strong stockades, so arranged 
as to be defended by musketry. Four of these were 
quite near each other, so situated, on either side of 
James brook, that its flow would provide water for the 
cattle yarded between the "garrisons". One of these 
four was the house of our ancestor, and it is natural to 
regard him as, either with or without formal title, the 
leader of its little force (see note p. 52.) In that force 
were his own sons John and James, both able to bear 
arms, and John already a man of family. Ebenezer 
would be a lad of ten, and Jonathan only eight. 

The fifth garrison has never been located, but it was 
"near a mile from the rest". I am fain to think it may 
ha\-e been near the River, at the place tradition calls 
"the White-man's Fort". That would be rather more 
than a mile, however. 

Trouble actually began March 2, 1()7(). That night, 
Indians came and rifled some of the deserted houses, 
carried off cattle and swine, and pretty thoroughly 
waked up the town. 

March 9, four men, who had gone out with two carts 
to bring hay , were attacked. One was killed, two reach- 
ed shelter, and one was made prisoner. He however 
escaped, and reached Lancaster, up the River south 
ward. 

March lo, a bodx' of al)out 400 Indians stealthily 
came to the place. They were under the command of 



THE BURNING OF GROTON 55 

a chief named Monoco, or Monojo, the latter indicating 
that he had been among the Spaniards. He could 
speak English brokenly, and was well acquainted with 
Captain James Parker, and probably with all the men 
of Groton. The settlers translated his name, calling 
hhn One-eyed John, indicating that he had lost an eye. 
This chief knew his business. Scouts from town liad 
been out in all directions the day before, and reported 
no Indians. Either the attacking body had been hid- 
den, or had come from a distance later. 

Early in the morning, the watch at Nutting's garri- 
son reported two Indians skulking about, — no doubt 
"vpon discouery", or scouting. As there were sup- 
posed to be no other Indians in the neighborhood, it 
seemed to all a desirable thing to capture or kill these 
rascals. It would be easy, it seemed, if a sufficient 
force went out, to surround them. Accordingly the 
whole fighting force of that garrison, and some from 
Parker's (which was within speaking distance) sallied 
forth, led as we suppose by our Founder himself. 

Monojo had planned wisely. The two supposed 
scouts led the whites on and on, till they were in the 
midst of the ambuscade prepared for them, which rose 
up and poured in a volley. Thanks probably to the 
worthless guns furnished to the Indians by traders, or 
to the equally worthless ammunition^ — perhaps also to 
poor markmanship — only two shots took effect. One 
man was killed outright, and another was wounded. A 
panic ensued, and the men, apparently thinking noth- 
ing of the defenceless women and children at the Nut- 
ting garrison, fled to Parker's en masse. Meanwhile 
the other part of Monojo's plan had also succeeded, a 
second ambush having risen up behind Nutting's, pulled 
down some of the palisades, and effected an entrance. 



.-,(i NUTTIXG (GENEALOGY 

However, the women and children all escaped to Par- 
ker's. The enemy found only an infant, already dead. 
Whose, it is not recorded. There were five families in 
refuge there. 

Monojo lost no time in occupying the garrison thus 
captured, from which he kept up such fire as he could 
upon the other houses. Night put an end to active 
hostilities, but Monojo called up Captain Parker, re- 
minding him that they were old neighbors, and held 
(]uite a conversation with him. He discussed the cause 
of- the war, and spoke of making peace. He naturally 
ridiculed the white man's worship of God in the Meet- 
inghouse, seeing that God had not helped them. He 
boasted that he had burnt Medfield and Lancaster, 
would now burn Groton, then "Chelmsford, Concord, 
Watertown, Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury, and 
Boston", adding, "What me WILL that me DO!" 
The chronicler, however, is pleased to add to his account 
that not many months later this boaster was seen march- 
ing through the Boston streets which he had threatened 
to bum "with an halter about his neck, wherewith he 
was hanged at the town's end", in September of the 
same year. 

The Indians cut off the head of him who had been 
killed by their first fire, and "did set it vpon a pole, 
looking unto his own lande". 

Undoubtedly the person killed was our Founder. It 
is singular that of the four who lost their lives at this 
time(two of whom were shot while driving the carts of 
the fleeing settlers toward Concord) not a single name 
comes down to us. Tw^o possible reasons may be cited 
for this omission. One is, the light estimate in those 
days of the ordinary laborer or servant. To persons of 
education or wealth, what happened to such was of lit- 



DEATH OF JOHN NUTTING 57 

tie importance. No record was called for. On this 
supposition, the Minister of Ipswich, who penned the 
only account of the Groton disaster, would perhaps not 
think of mentioning the names of those killed, unless 
they were of rank at least above mere servants or labor- 
ers. This explanation, I am aware, would indicate that 
the one whose head was displayed as mentioned could 
hardly have been farmer Nutting, but was probably 
some menial. 

A second possible (and very natural) explanation of 
the omission of names, is found in the haste and trouble 
of the time, and the probable hearsay character of the 
information upon which the Minister of Ipswich con- 
structed his account. Not being personally acquainted 
with the individuals, it probably seemied unimportant 
to search for their names. 

One thing is certain, the unbroken and unvarying 
family tradition, in all branches, has been that our 
Founder "was killed by the Indians". In many cases 
the added phrase is "in King Philip's War", or "at the 
burning of Groton". 

Mono jo was undoubtedly acquainted with John Nut- 
ting, and knew well where "his own lande lay" — namely, 
at his garrison, a few rods to the north of where he fell. 
It seems to me likely also, that the particular direction 
toward which the gory trophy was made to "look", 
would hardly have been noticed, had not the chief call- 
ed attention to it by way of boasting, in his talk with 
Captain Parker. 

The Town and Church Records, of course were in ab- 
beyance for some time following the catastrophe, so 
that the absence of any entry concerning the death of 
John Nutting is not to be wondered at. (The Church Re- 
cord is hopelessly lost.) But it is significant that his 



58 XUTTIX(^. GENEAL0(;Y 

name never appears after in any connection. The 
names of his sons, John, James, and (once or twice) 
Ebenezer, naturally take the place of his. Sarah, his 
widow, is found some time later at Woburn, living, it 
is supposed with her married sister — Blodgett. 

Dr. Green savs (p. 28) in his Historical Address, 
Feb. 20, 1880: 

"In this assault John Nutting's garrison was taken 
by stratagem. The men defending it had been drawn 
out by two Indians apparently alone, when the savages 
in ambush arose, and killed one of the men, probably 
John Nutting himself, and wounded three others .... 
There is a tradition, which is entitled to credence, that 
John Nutting was killed while defending his log-house 
fort during King Philip's War. His wife's name 
appears a few months later in the Woburn town rec- 
ords as 'Widow Nutting', which is confirmatory of 
the tradition". 

And so we take leave of our first American Ancestor, 
Evidently he was a man of enterprise and energy. It 
is also certain that he was not without means — witness 
his Proprietorship, first in the Chelmsford enterprise, 
then in that of Groton. If he proves to be the man of 
Governor's Island, the source of such wealth as may 
have been his is easily explained. But at least he was 
no pauper or mere man of his hands. 

It is equally certain that he was truly a pious man. 
Among the things he coveted, was a home "nigh to the 
Meetinghouse", so that he and his wife and his "smale 
childr:" might not miss the l^eloved "ordin:". His 
humble position as sexton or janitor of the Meeting- 
house, both at Chelmsford and at Groton, could not 
have been because he needed the trifling stipend, but 
rather because he felt it to be an honor to be "a door 
keeper in the house of the Lord" . 



JOHN NUTTING A HERO 59 

That he was a brave man needs only the history of his 
last morning to show. Without doubt he fell in leading 
his little force for the defence of his town and family. 

The entire village was burnt, except the three garri- 
sons still held by the settlers. These were probably 
burnt upon being abandoned. The church was the sec- 
ond building to be fired. Judging from certain bills 
and accounts in reference to it, it must have been a very 
humble structure. It seems to have been a log build- 
ing, covered externally with "clap-boards", which were 
probably rived and shaved. Its roof was of thatch, 
and steeple it had none. Instead of a bell, a flag was 
hung out to show the hour of service. There was no 
means of heating it in winter, but small "foot-stoves", 
or boxes which had a pan of coals within, served to keep 
the feet from freezing while the long prayers and still 
longer sermons were supposed to warm the soul. 

Within a few days a platoon of dragoons appeared on 
the scene, and the settlers loaded their carts with what 
they had been able to save and were escorted to Con- 
cord. No enemy having been discovered, the train of 
carts became so scattered at starting, as to stretch out 
for two miles. Suddenly the foremost w^ere attacked, 
and two of the drivers were mortally wounded, dying 
the same night. These made up the list of fatal casu- 
al i ties to four. 

A little more than a year later, a Groton Town Meet- 
ing was convened at Concord, and twelve of the Pro- 
prietors, headed as usual by James Parker, agreed to 
return and rebuild Groton. Of course, the name of the. 
Founder is w^anting. But also, w^e do] not find the 
names of John and James, his grown sons. Possibly 
they were not yet freemen of the town. Or, owing to 
their youth, they may not have been called. The "war" 



(ill 



NUTTIXr, GEXEALOdV 




Site of Church Hurned by the Indians 



was over. Met-a-comet(King Philip) had met his fate. 
But from that time was never real peace, so long as an 
Indian was left to steal upon some paleface unawares. 
Many times the hostility broke out more or less openly. 
With every European w-ar in w^hich France and En- 
gland were involved, the Indians were deliberately set 
u]Jon the defenceless outposts of settlement, and many 
were the lives thus sacrificed, in a way utterly without 
effect u])<)n tlie main contest, and wholly without ex- 
cuse. 



Return to Groton 

John 2 and James eventually returned to Groton. 
and are recorded as Nos. 9 and 20 in "The Indian Roll" 
of the 73 heads of families living in the town soon after 
its resettlement, as recorded in Dr. Green's Historical 
Address of 1S20. 

John had then at least two children, born probably 
at Concord. James also had married, and had several 
daughters. What arrangement was made in favor of 
their mother, or of the two younger sons, Ebenezer 
and Jonathan, we do not know. John and James in- 
herited their father's lands and rights, and were reck- 
oned as Proprietors in his place. John seems to have 
taken such lands as were on the east side of the River, 
James, those on the west side, in the part of the origi- 
nal town which became Pepperell. My own home lay 
on the River, which is the boundary between the two. 

The first mention of John or James in the Records, is 
in 1693, when, under some fresh alarm, the men of Gro- 
ton were once more collected into garrisons. John and 
James were both included in the garrison at Captain 
James Parker's, indicating that they had returned to 
the old spot which had been their home before the burn- 
ing of the town. But James afterward removed to his 
lands in Pepperell. 

Ebenezer also appears to have returned to Groton 
for a time. A lad of ten at the time the town was for- 
saken, there is some reason to think that with little 
Jonathan, still younger, he had lived with his widowed 
mother at Woburn. There is an entry there, showing 
that a bounty was paid to Widow Nutting for the scalp 



G2 XUTTIXCx GENEALOGY , 

of a wolf. As the Widow Nutting can hardly be sup- 
posed to have killed the wolf herself, the supposition is 
that her boys, Ebenezer or Jonathan, or both, must 
have taken the trophy; and incidentally, the item is 
thought to throw light upon the character of the boys. 

Ebenezer is mentioned as one of "Those that are al- 
ready gone", from Groton, before 1707. The General 
Court had passed a law forbidding the removal of the 
inhabitants of frontier towns, as exposing those who re- 
mained to the greater risk. The law was too late in 
Ebenezer's case, as he and many others were "already 
gone". 

Little Jonathan, the small boy who had the good luck 
to escape with the others when his father's garrison was 
taken, seems never to have returned to Groton. 



THE SECOND GENERATION 63 

And so we come to the more formal tabulation of 
The Second Generation 

b 1 John 2, son of John 1 . 

Woburn, 1651. Removed to Chelmsford . aftei-wards 

to Groton with his parents, m 1674, Mary Lived at 

Concord for a time after the burning of Groton, but re- 
turned before 1693, and again lived near Captain Par- 
ker, presumably at the old home of his father. His 
death is not recorded, but he was living in April 1717, 
as witness an account between him and his son Jonathan, 
in 

"Jonathan Nutting's Accompt Book", 
which is before me as I write. In later life, Mary his 
wife having died, he married Mrs Maria Parker. All 
his children are by his first wife. He was a member of 
the church at Groton. 

b 2 James second son of John 1. 

Woburn, 1653. At Chelmsford and Groton with his 
parents until the attack. At Concord during the dis- 
persion, but returned to Groton, and later removed to 
his lands west of the River, in what became PepperelL 
m ( at Groton, or perhaps recorded during the disper- 
sion) Lvdia 

b 3 Mary, b Woburn 1654 

b 4 Sarah, b Groton 1661 

b 5 Ebenezer, b Groton 1666. A boy of ten when 
the town was burned. Lived with his mother at Con- 
cord and Woburn. Returned to Groton for a time, but 
left before 1707. Settled at Cambridge. Was a black- 
smith: became a "learned blacksmith". Studied medi- 
cine and became "a skillful Physician and surgeon". 
Represented his town in General Court — more than once, 
I think. Was highly esteemed. 



64 XUTTIXn GENEALOr.V 

b 6 Jonathan. Youngest son of the Founder. A 
child when with others he escaped from his home, taken 
by the Indians. At Concord and Wobum. Settled 
near Ebenezer at Cambridge, and was "a very skillful 
smith, to w^ork in Iron and brass". (E.G.) 

b 7 Josiah and b 8 Sarah, died in infancy. 



The Third Generation 

The four sons of the Founder who survived infancy, 
namely John 2, James, Ebenezer, and Jonathan, be- 
came the heads of the four main branches of our Clan. 
In the more than two centuries which have elapsed since 
these branches separated, I have been able to note no 
instance in which intermarriage has occurred, though alli- 
ances between individuals of the same branch are not in- 
frequent. For convenience of reference these branches 
will be designated by the letters A, B,C, and D. 

A 

Descendants of b 1 John 2, eldest son of a 1 John 1. 

c 1 John 3. b. Concord during the dispersion, 167S. 
Lived in Groton. There is no record of his marriage, 
which probably occurred elsewhere than at Groton. 
He lived a full century, d 1778: hence is known as The 
Centennarian. He retained his physical and mental 
vigor to the last. In the final year of his life, with the 
assistance of his grand-nephew William, he compiled 
the Early Genealogy already referred to. It consisted 
of tabulated lists in diagram form — the diagram varying 
in different copies — with very brief notes attached to 
some of the names. 

c 2 Daniel 3. Also b during the refugee period, 
date uncertain, but probably 1680. He begins a note- 
worthy line of Daniels. 

c 3 Ebenezer 3, b Groton 1086. m Ruth, dau 
William Shattuck. 



66 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



c 4 Jonathan, b Groton, 1089. Was a "shou- 
niaker" ami "made ye first shou ever made in Groton 
17()()"'. Was also a tanner, and paid for and tanned 
"William Shattuck's hyde". (William Shattuck was the 
father of Ruth, above.) He was also the maker and 
author of 

"Jonathan Nutting's Accompt Book," 
which is still in my possession. The relic is chiefly val- 













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JONATHAN NUTTING'S ACCOUNT BOOK 



67 



liable for its Family Record, but its quaint entries are 
interesting as showing the current prices of most ordi- 
nary articles at that date. A pocket attached to one 
of the covers has many ancient business-papers, arriong 
them some receipts-in-full which release all dues, "from 
ye beginning of ye world unto this day". 

The Family Record has been continued by various 
hands to the present. We select for one of the specimen 




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OS XUTTING GEXEALOGY 

pages of this book, the one which notes the return home 
uf certain men who had been sent to bury the remains 
of Captain Lovell and his men, who had fallen some 
weeks before, in the tight at Lovell 's Pond. The fa- 
mous chief, Paugus. fell in the same fight, by a shot fired 
b\- Cliamberlain, a Groton man who survived. 

'c 5 Eleazer ;^. b Groton I()9S. m 1719, Abigail, 
dau jolin Davis. 

B 

Descendants of b 2 James 2, Second son of the 
Founder. 

c 6 Sarah. 1G81 and c 7 Lydia, IGSG. 

c 8 William, 1089, d 1712. This was a "Bonny 
Brier-Bush" case. The young man was greatly beloved 
and sorel\' lamented. Jonathan, above, notes that he 
named his first son, born later in 1712. for this young 
cousin. 

c 9 Joanna, KH)!. c 10, Ruth, 1G93. c 11 Eliza- 
beth. 1098. 

c 12 James 3, 1701. The last date is not of record. 
Probably it fell at a transition perion, while Pepperell 
was only a precinct. 

C 

Descendants of b 5 Ebenezer, M. D., third son of the 
Foimder. 

c 13 Jonathan 3, supposed to have m. Isabel Blood. 
Born 1()94, d 1756. Settled on the Chicopee river, 
sometimes called The Ouaboag, at Brimfield, founding 
the numerous Brimfield colony. 

c 14 Ebenezer 'A, settled at Cambridgeport. 

c 15 Josiah and c 16 John, both returned to 
Westford, ])n)bably inheriting the lands of their 



APPARENTLY FROM THE SAME FOUNDER (J!) 

grandfather the Founder there. They were joined 
later by descendants of b 1 John 2, of Groton, whose 
posterity became predominant. 

Besides the above, E. G. says Ebenezer's "posterity 
may be found at Marblehead, Gloucester, and Salem". 
It gives no names. But we hear of Nuttings of each of 
those towns, who are usually sailors; some are offcers 
in the Rev. navy. 

D 

Descendants of b 6 Jonathan, youngest son of the 
Founder. 

c 17 John, A.M. 3. Grad. Harvard 1712. A not- 
ed Teacher. Head Master Salem schools. Ruling 
Elder. A man of polish and dignity, and very likely 
to have valued a Coat of Arms(see p. 24). Later became 
one of Hawthorne's predecessors in ofTice, as Collector 
of the Port. He is reputed as held in high esteem. 
L.ved to be 97. 

c 18 Jonathan 3, settled at Wrentham, or Attleboro, 
then probably included in Wrentham. The E.G. says 
"His posterity at Thomaston, Maine." The only one 
of those with whom I have had any communication is 
Mrs Maggie Lermond of Thomaston, w^ho was seeking 
to establish her descent from this Jonathan, but could 
not find certain proof. 

c 19 Samuel, settled at Dan vers. 

c 20 James, who continued his father's business at 
Cambridge. 

^Starred Names, od Generation. 

The star (*) before a name, indicates that there is no 
record of previous or early ancestry. After careful con- 
sideration, I am convinced that these names belong 



7U NUTTING GENEALOGY 

rightly to the family, and should have place in the sev- 
eral generations, although they cannot be traced dis- 
tinctly to the Founder. My reasons are these : 

1 -With one or two exceptions, all these names take 
origin from Groton. The exceptions are all, except one 
or two, located in Eastern Mass. or N. H., and may 
have been from Groton. 

2 In no instance have I found any family tradition 
of a separate origin. All believe themselves to be of 
the Groton stock. 

o The prevalence of the customary Nutting given- 
names favors the identity. 

4 There is abundant room for these in the many rec- 
ords which stop short with the early generations. 
Failure to record does not by any means indicate fail- 
ure to multiply. Race-suicide had not then begun to 
obtain. Butler, in his excellent History, lamenting the 
acknowledged incompleteness of his birth-lists, says in 
substance that the public Records are extremely imper- 
fect, and that he was obliged to supplement them by 
obtaining all the family records available. This cer- 
tainly leaves room to suppose that all our starred names 
are mere instances of failure to report or record births. 

The large predominance of the line of John 2, eldest 
son of the founder, in all the region around Groton 
would also favor the presumption that these names of 
right belong to that branch. But of course this is not 
certain. The very predominance claimed may be due 
to more care in recording births- -perhaps owing to 
some pride of rank as The Line of The Eldest — a natural 
lieritage from the mother country. The most impor- 
tant starred name of all, is that of 

c 21 ^Nathaniel of Groton, m Ehzabeth Page, 1731. 
This would naturally place his birth about 1710, but we 



THIRD GENERATION 71 

have no record. It is strange that E. G. does not con- 
tain his name, or those of his numerous children, tliough 
it would seem that both must have been well known to 
the compilers. I have come to suspect that the reason 
of this omission may have been that some of this family 
were loyalists, and that — the E.G. having had its origin 
during the Revolution, when feeling ran high, the com- 
pilers would not enrol Tory names. 

There is reason to suppose that one of the children of 
this Nathaniel (David, below) is the Captain David of 
the Royal army, who went from Northern Vermont to 
Canada. 



The Fourth Generation 
A 

I Children of c 1 John :> (The Centennarian) , John 2, 
John 1. 

d 1 John 4. d 2 Ephraim4, m Jerusha Parker, 1754. 

d 3 Isaac, d 4 Jacob. Tlie last two names I give 
from memor\', taking them from a copy of E. G. now 
lost. The copy I have lacks a fragment which should 
have these names, though I cannot be absolutely cer- 
tain. 

l\ ChihhxMi of c 2 Daniel-'), John 2, 7. 
d 5 Hannah. 1714, m Amos Woods. 17:>:). d 6 
Daniel !, 171(). d 7 Betty, 171S. d 8 Eunice, 1719. 
d 9 Ezekiel 4, 1S2(). d 10 Samuel 4, 1722. 

Ill Children of c 3 Ebenezer 3, lohn 2, 1. 

d 11 James 4, 171:]. d 12 Ruth, 1715. d 13 Abi- 
gail, 171S. d 14 Ebenezer 4, 1710. d 15 Lydia, 1721. 
d 16 David 4, 1724. d 17 Jacob 4, 1725. 
d 18 Benjamin, 1730. d 19, Phebe, 1737. 

1\' (4-iildren of c 4 Jonathan 3, John 2, 1, 
d 20 William 4, known as Lieutenant William, b 1712. 
m Joan, dau of Benoni Boynton. Long supposed to 
have been a Minute-man, and certainly went to Lex- 
ington witli liis son, at The Alarm; but I do not find his 
name upon an}' Service-roll, and he was beyond mili- 
tary £ige at the time. A single trivial anecdote has 
come down to us of his youthful life. 1 have heard it 
from his grandson Professor Rufus senior, ( f. 06 ) 
who states that he heard it from his grandmother, the 
venerable Joan. 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 73 

It seems that this Wilham had an undesirable horse, 
and wishing to be rid of him, took him to a fair. Tying 
the beast in a stall, and willing never to see him more, 
he betook himself to the Office, where was a comfortable 
fire. Soon a neighbor bantered him to swap horses, 
"sight unseen". He did so, getting a dollar "to boot". 
Telling the buyer where he would find the horse, he still 
sat by the fire. The same thing happened several 
times during the day, and with each exchange he got 
his dollar. At evening he went to see what fortune he 
had had — and found in the stall the horse he had himself 
brought ! But he had several dollars for his day's work, 
besides having the joke on all who had traded with him. 

He d in 1776, of "numb Palsy". His wife long sur- 
vived, marrying one Reed, of Dunstable, whom also she 
survived, dying in 1803. 

d 21 Sarah, 1714, m John Swallow, d 22 Mary, 
1718, m N. Blodgett. d 23 Jemima, 1720, m Josiah 
Blodgett. d 24 Lydia, 1722, m Timothy Moors, d 
25 Deborah, 1724, m James Stone, d 26 Annis, 1730, 
m William Holden. The Holdens became pioneer set- 
tlers of Claremont N. H., in "the upper Co-os Country". 

V. Children of c 5 Eleazer 3, John 2, 1. 

d 27 Abigail, 1720. d 28 Patience, 1722. d 29 
Eleazar 4, 172G. d 30 Jonathan 4. d 31 Simeon 4, 
1730, "settled at Ashburnham". d 32 Sarah, 1734. 

B 

Children of c 12 James 3, James 2, John 1. 

d 33 John 4. "Had two sons." Names not given 
and no further record, d 34 Josiah 4. Went first to 
Maiden, where his first son was born. Settled at Nor- 
ridgewock, Me., where E. G. locates "his posterity". I 



74 XUTTINC; GENEALOGY 

have not found them, but learn that there are Nuttings 
in tlie re.e^ion, whose address I have not obtained. 
d 35 Benjamin, no issue. 

C 

I Children of c 13 Jonathan 3, Ebenezer M. D., 2. 
John 1. (Brimheld) 

d 36 Jonathan 4, 1735-1811. m Abigail Banister, 
whod 1X3.") (Brimfield). 

d 37 James 4, m Mary, dau Gideon and Jemima 
Carpenter, of Hardwick. She was of Mayflower des- 
cent. 

d 38 David 4, 1745. d 1818. Settled at Leverett, 
founding the Leverett colony, m Dinah, dau Nathan 
and Sarah Carpenter, of Hardwick. 

d 39 Ebenezer 4, a soldier, and killed in the Old 
Frencli War, 175(). 

d 40 Sarah Catherine. d 41 Lydia. d 42 Anne. 
The order in this family is not certain. 

II Children of c 14 Ebenezer of Cambridgeport, 
3, El)enezer 2, John 1. 

d 43 Ebenezer 4, a sailor. Thought to have served 
in the Royal Navy. "Lost at sea." "Drowned on the 
Grand Banks." He left tw^o infant sons, one of whom 
Ijecame the head of a numerous posterity. 

d 44 Benjamin, d 45 Jonathan, Of whom no re- 
cord. * 

III Children of c 15 Josiah 3, Ebenezer 2, John 1. 
(West ford.) < 

d 46 Mary, and d 47 Benjamin. No further record. 

IV Children of c 16 John 3, Ebenezer 2, John 1. 
(Westford). : - 



FOURTH GENERATION 75 

d 48 Hannah, 1755-1811. d 49 John, 1756. A 

Revolutionary soldier, and d at Albany in the service, 
1777. No children. 

d 50 Rev. Thomas, 1758. A very useful pioneer min- 
ister at Piermont and Plymouth, in northern N. H. 
It would seem that his family continued to live at West- 
ford, m Sibyl (Prescott ?). 

d 51 Mary, 1761. d 52 Benjamin, d young, d 53 
Sarah, J 764. 

D 

I Children of c 17 John, A.M., 3, Jonathan 2, John 1. 
(Salem.) 

d 54 James, d 55 William? E. G. is in doubt as 
to the latter name. "Both d without issue, and the 
male line is extinct." I think this may be a mistake. 
(d 56, Deborah, m Crowninshield?) 

II Children of c 18 Jonathan of Wrentham 3. 
Room for research at Thomaston, Me. 

III Children of c 19 Samuel of Danvers 3, Jonathan 
2, John 1. 

d 57 Samuel, a Captain in the Revolution, d 57a 
Jonathan, a mute. 

d 58 John d 59 Joseph, d 60 Charles. Of these, 
no record. 

IV Children of c 20 James of Cambridge, 3, Jona- 
than 2, John I. 

d 61 Samuel 4, a surgeon in the Rev. army and 
navy. Captured with privateer brigantine Independ- 
ence, and prisoner at Halifax. Exchanged, 1777. vSur- 
geon, ship Rhodes, Capt. Buffinton. Later, with Col. 
Webb's Reg't at Peekskill till the end of the War. 



76 NUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

d 62 Eben, d. young, d 63 John, a loyalist. Was 
a civil engineer, and prolxibl)- in government employ 
when the war broke out. Cambridge proved an unde- 
sirable home at the time, and he went, first to Maine, 
then to Halifax. Was employed on the fortifications 
of Halifax, and received a grant of two thousand acres 
of land in the "Minis Basin", the best in the colony. 

Note, This name is not included in the E. G. lists. I 
obtained it from Miss Mary. Did E. G. omit because 
John was a Tory ? 

Starred Names, 4th Generation 

* Children of c 21 Nathaniel o of Groton. Ances- 
trv uncertain. 

d 64 Elizabeth. 1732. d 65 Nehemiah, 1734. d 66 
Sarah. 17;;(). d 67 Hannah, 1730. 

d 68 Nathaniel 4, 1740. Settled at Concord, m Mary 
Wheeler. 

d 69 Prudence, 1742. d 70 Jonas, 1744. d 71 Mir- 
iam. 174."). d 72 Amos, 1746. d 73 Susanna, 1748. ■ 

d 74 Elizabeth, 1750. d 75 David, 1752. 

I think this David was a loyalist, and perhaps the 
rest of the family also. Possibly he was already a "re- 
gular" when the war began. This would be enough I 
am sure, as the feeling then was, to cause the whole 
family to be ignored by the E.G. compilers. If I am 
correct, David went to northern Vermont (then being 
rapidly settled from Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
shire) and from thence went to Canada. As in such a 
case the repulsion would be mutual, it may account for 
the lack of records, or even tradition, connecting the 
Canadian family with that of Groton. The descen- 
dants of Captain David (whoever he may have been), 
only know that he came from the little towm of Mich- 



FOURTH GENERATION 77 

ford, Vermont, where indeed their tradition places his 
birth. But this latter would not be strange, if it was 
desired to sever connection with "rebel" relatives. 

But this is only hypothesis. If spared, I hope to 
push researches in hopes of arriving at the real facts. 



The Fifth Generation 

Beginning once more with the Hne of the Eldest. 

A 

I Children of d 1 John 4, John 3, John 2 John 1. 
e 1 Zachariah, m Eunice Nutting. With 

e 2 John o, who m Elizabeth Nutting, "settled at 
Springheld Vennont, where their posterity are numer- 
ous." This may have been true when written, a cen- 
tury or more since. But persistent effort for some 
years back fails to find a single representative. My 
letters have been answered from Perkinsville; but by a 
lady whose Groton origin is by a different line. I think, 
however, that I find one of the sons of this John farther 
west, in New York. The younger brother, John, above, 
seems only to have removed to Vermont late in life, af- 
ter all his family had been recorded at Groton. Zacha- 
riah may have preceded him many years. 

II Children of d 2 Ephraim 4, John 3, 2, 1. 

e 3 Jonathan 5, 1755. e 4 Relief, 175.S. e 5 Nathan, 
171)1. e 6 Ephraim. 1705. Nathan settled at Otisfield, 
Maine, founding the Otisfield colony. 

III Children of d 3 Isaac 4, same descent. Con- 
nection not quite certain. 

e 7 Hephzibah, 1737. e 8 Isaac 5, 1730. e 9 Ruth. 
17 11. e 10 Eleazer, 5. 174:5. e 11 Sibyl, 1745. e 12 
Jacob 5, 1717. e 13 Thomas 5, 1750. 

IV Children of d 4 Jacob, same descent, and same 
uncertain! \-. 



THE NUTTING MONUMENT AT WESTFORD 79 

e 14 Jacob 5, Lived in that part of Groton which 
has become Ayer. May possibly have been the father 
of OHver of Mason. 

V Children of d 6 Daniel 4, Daniel 3, John 2, 1. 

e 15 Simeon, 1747. e 16 Mary, 1749. 'e 17 Eliza- 
beth, 1753. e 18 Eunice, 1754. 

e 19 Daniel 5, 1756. This Daniel m Molly Law- 
rence of Townsend, who was descended from the Wash- 
ington family, and claimed distant relationship to the 
great George. They lived for a time at Groton, but set- 
tled at Westford. Mr C. L. Nutting of Medford, a des- 
cendant, has the quaint old razor with which this Da- 
niel once shaved. It has his initials cut into the handle. 
Daniel was a Minute-man, and fought at Bunker Hill, 




Nutting Cemetery, Westford 



80 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



serving also at other times during the War. He lived 
to be one of the honored guests at the laying of the 
comer stone of the monument, in 1S25. He d in 1836. 
His head-stone is seen in the engraving "Nutting Ceme- 




Nutting Monument in Westford Cemetery 



tery.Westford". Tliis cemetery is mostly occupied, by 
the way, by kindred remains. Molly, his wife, lies be- 
side him — a mother in Israel, indeed. 



ABEL, THE MUSKETEER 81 

e 20 Abel, known as "The Musketeer", 1758. En- 
listed at sixteen, and served at various times to the end 
of the war. The E. G. says of him, "After the war, he 
shouldered his musket, and went to the Eastward" (the 
usual phrase for Maine). A century later, Aaron Nut- 
ting of Lisbon, Maine, a grandson, wrote me, "After the 
Peace, he shouldered his musket and accoutrements, 
and struck out for work. He reached Bath, and stopt 
with a Mr Coombs, a shoemaker. Mr. Coombs had a 
young daughter named Rhoda. Abel found work, and 
the next year he married Rhoda, and they came to Lis- 
bon, where he spent his life as a farmer, or, having at 
one time bought a mill, as a miller. At one time there 
were forty of his descendants of the name living here. 
Now I am the only one left." The letter has the seal of 
Aaron Nutting, Justice of the Peace. The musket 
seems to have impressed both contemporaries and des- 
cendants. It stood for energy, self-reliance, industry, 
and in fine, all the manly virtues. Rhoda made a wise 
selection. She lived to be ninety-nine. 

VI Children of d 9 Ezekiel 4, Daniel 3, John 2, 
John 1. 

e 21 Ezekiel 5, 1751. e 22 Abigail, 1753. e 23 
Esther, 1759. e 24 Hannah, 1761. 

VII Children of d 10 Samuel 4, No record. 

VIII Children of d 16 David 4, Ebenezer 3, John 2, 
1, No record. 

IX d 17 Jacob 4, Ebenezer 3, John 2, John 1, 
"died Childless." 

X Children of d 20 William 4 (Lieutenant William), 
Jonathan 3, John 2, 1, 



S2 NUTTING GENEALOCxY 

e 25 Jane, 1741, m(l) Oliver Parker, by whom she had 
a lara^e family; m (2), Hunter. 

e 26 Sarah, 1747, m Gershem Hobart, son of the 
minister of Groton. 

e 27 Eunice, 1750, m Timothy Dustin, son of the fa- 
mous Hannah of Haverhill. Settled at Claremont, 
X. H.. near the Holdens. 

e 28 William, 1752, known as William, Esquire, (hav- 
ving been a J. P.) A corporal in Capt. Asa Lawrence's 
company of Minute-men, and serving at various times 
during the war. m Mrs Susanna Danforth, dau of Col. 
Joseph French of Dunstable. In connection with his 
great uncle John 3, the Centennarian, he compiled the 
Early Genealogy, so important to the present work. 

He was a man of versatile talent. A good farmer for 
his times, he introduced in Groton the cultivation of 
"murphies", or Irish potatoes. During a visit of his 
youngest son to the old home about 1840, I remember 
hearing my father relate this fact, and their laughing 
about the way the neighbors had almost thought the 
"Squire" had gone crazy, because he had raised three 
wliole barrels of the outlandish roots ! "What would he 
ever do with so many of them ?" 

He usually taught school winters, riding from home, 
and carrying "Billa" (afterwards William G, the lawyer) 
before him on horse-back. He notes having taught one 
winter "in Capt. Rockwood's Squadron" (district) for 
$9 per month and board himself; half in money, the 
other half in town-warrants, which could be used in pay- 
ing rates (taxes). He particularly loved music, and 
made himself a singular bass-viol, which he used to play 
in church. (In my childhood it was stored in the attic. 
The head was of the usual form, but the body was like 
a longitudinal section of a dash churn. It was burned 



SHAYS'S REBELLION 83 

with the house.) He even composed hymn-tunes, some 
of which may still be found in old collections. He was 
also an enthusiastic member of "ye Matrass company" 
(Groton Artillery), with which he never failed to "ex- 
ercise". 

Having inherited the shoe-bench on which his grand- 
father Jonathan had "made the first shou ever made in 
Groton", he put it to use one winter by making many 
pairs of shoes and boots, to go with which Susanna knit- 
ted socks or stockings. In February these were loaded 
intoa"pung",and he made the long journey toWeath- 
ersfield, Vt., and Claremont, N. H., partly to vist his 
brother Abel, and the Holdens and Dustins at Clare- 
mont, but mainly to sell the load for something that 
could be turned into real money for the payment of 
debts and taxes. There was plenty of "Continental" 
money in circulation, but it was not taken for taxes or 
debts of long standing. That very winter he had paid 
"a whole chaise-box full" of Continental bills for "a 
very ordinary cow". On the trip to Vermont, hay 
and grain were carried along as far as possible, to save 
expense. The boots and shoes were peddled out slowly, 
for corn, oats, flax-seed, flax, rye, pork(salt or fresh) — in 
fact for anything that could be turned into real money 
at Boston, whither they were all carried on his return. 

The distress which resulted from the worthlessness 
of Continental bills (which also drove out of circulation 
such specie as might otherwise have served) led to the 
so-called Shays's RebeUion; which aimed, not at over- 
throwing the government, but only to stop the collec- 
tion of debts by law, since there was nothing with which 
the debtor could pay, except what real-estate he might 
have, and that must go at a fearful sacrifice. Groton 
was a chief center of this rebellion, and Captain Job 



S4 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Shattuck of Pepperell t)ne of its leaders. All that was 
intended by the Shays men has since been accom- 
plished by legal methods, in the shape of "stay-laws", 
&c. Shattuck and some others were imprisoned, but 
soon released. There was general sympathy with the 
men, but of course their methods could not be allowed. 

In 1803, one death in every ten, in our country, was 
due to small-pox. Jenner had recently discovered the 
virtues of vaccination, and it had been practiced a few 
times at Cambridge. But the people were afraid of it, 
especially as some ministers preached against it as "a 
bestial practise". The minister and the doctors of 
Groton were more enlightened. At their request, Wil- 
liam Nutting allowed his home to be used for the testing 
of the new practice. His own large family were first 
of all vaccinated. Then several small-pox patients, 
some natural cases and some innocculated, were lodged 
in the house and in the large new barn, and later, "clas- 
ses" of vaccinated persons were brought thither, and 
every effort was made to test the question of their im- 
munity. All were freely exposed. Some were even 
inocculated with small-pox. This continued for some 
weeks, until all parties were satisfied. No person who 
had been vaccinated could l)e infected. The new prac- 
tice was triumphantly vindicated. Among the small- 
pox patients was one Cuban, who hung his hammock 
in the great floor of the barn. The hooks by which it 
was suspended remained there till the barn was burnt, 
forty years later. While waiting for the testing, some 
of the men helped Mr Nutting with his work. Among 
those recorded as hoeing corn, several days, was young 
Abbott Lawrence, afterw^ard Minister of the U. S. to 
the court of England. 



WILLIAM, ESQUIRE'S MINUTE BOOKS 85 

William was also something of a writer, especially 
for the religious periodicals of his time. In the noted 
theological contest of those days, he was the leading 
lay-champion of orthodoxy. His writings are quoted 
in the later histories of that conflict. Once he even 
"dropt into verse", in a poem entitled 

"The Pulpit's Complaint", 
the original draft of which is preserved in the pocket of 
Jonathan's Accompt Book, with all the erasures and 
corrections. It has been published as an historical cu- 
riosity. He also published a pamphlet in favor of in- 
fant baptism. 

His wife Susanna dying in ISOO, he later m Mrs Mary 
Hubbard, dau of Deacon Thomas Barrett of Concord. 
Her father had been one of those taken prisoner during 
the unpleasantness at Concord — the military stores 
having been found at his house. But the old man so 
preached righteousness and repentance to the ofTicer 
who guarded him, that he was speedily released. The 
officer did not enjoy the evident pleasure of his men. 

Each of the parties to this marriage had six children, 
to whom were added those of my own father. And 
somehow that old farm, long since "abandoned", sup- 
ported them all. 

I am able to speak thus fully of my grandfather, be- 
cause from his marriage in 1777 on, he kept what he call- 
ed "Minute Books", in which he jotted dow^n the occur- 
rences of every day. The change which has taken place 
in public opinion with respect to the use of stimulants, 
is seen in the naive entries of his daily consumption of 
"cyder", "flip", "beer", and "rum". Amount and cost 
are set down with other expenses, evidently without a 
thought of any evil. On one Sunday morning he found 
it his duty to do what he could (being road-surveyor 



86 XUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

that year) to save the bridge over the Nashua (now, I 
think, called Hollingsworth's; see p. 34). On Monday 
he writes ; "Found the bridge in great danger. Went up 
the great road, warning the men to come and help save 
the bridge. Went as mr as Brown's tavern ; bought one 
pail rum, and four pounds brown sugar. We saved the 
bridge." 

These minute-books cover nearly the whole period 
of the Revolution, and all the formative years of our na- 
tion. It is a disappointment therefore to find in them 
scarcely any reference to the great events of the time. 
He casually alludes to his having been "at Fort Ed- 
ward", during the Burgoyne campaign. He mentions 
his duties as a constable in regard to raising men and 
means for the war. He describes the sorrow of the 
people at the death of Washington. He notes the ar- 
rest and serious wounding of Capt. Job Shattuck, the 
Shays-man. Beyond these, one w^ould scarcely ima- 
gine that the writer was living in extraordinary times. 

The Minute-books were long in m}' possession, and 
carefully studieei. Becoming fearful of loss or injury, 
I at length turned them over to the Mass. Historical 
Society, at whose rooms in Boston they may now be 
found. Dr. S. .A. Green, the indefatigable Secretary, 
has issued a pamphlet of extracts. 

My grandfather died in 1832, one month before I was 
bom. I have always regretted having missed his ac- 
(juaintancei 

e 29 Mary, 1755. e 30 Abel, d in infancy, e 31 
Abel, 17()1 . m Polh' Boynton, and settled at Weathers- 
licld. Vt. e 32 Molly, d in infancy. 

XI Cliildren of d 29 Eleazer 4, 3, John 2, 1. 

e 33 Eleazer .">. ni Sarali Kemp of Groton. vSettled 
in Peppcrcll. 



UNCLE EB. 87 

B 

I Children of d 34 Josiah 4, James 3, 2, John 1. 

e 34 Captain John, of Lexington and Bunker Hill. 

Born at Maiden. His father soon after settled at Nor- 
ridgewock, Maine. This son and his brother (below), 
returned and settled at Pepperell, the old home of the 
James Branch. John m Martha Blood. He was Cap- 
tain of Minute-men at Lexington, and remained in the 
continental army. At Bunker Hill he was sent with 
his men to defend Charlestown, where he lost several 
men, but no Nutting fell, though there were several in 
his command. He never forgot that the Pepperell men, 
though they were five miles farther away, were at Gro- 
ton, on the day of Lexington, before the Groton men 
were ready to march. He died in 1816, by drowning, 
aged 80. 

e 35 Josiah 5, who also returned from Maine to 
Pepperell, m Zeruiah Lawrence. 

C 

L Children of d 36 Jonathan 4 (Brimfield) 3, Ebe- 
nezer 2, John 1. m Abigail Banister. 

e 36 Abigail.1772, m Daniel Wallace, d 1839. 

e 37 Susanna, 1774, m Jos. Chadwick, 1817, d 1855. 

e 38 Jonathan 5. Settled at Palmer, m Anna Spear. 

e 39 Ebenezer 5 remained on the old place at Brim- 
field. Was a noted player on the violin, but especially 
on the fife. In those days (perhaps still) the General 
Muster of militia each Autumn was a great occasion, 
The day was spent in regimental or battalion drill, 
which in the afternoon usually took the form of a sham- 
fight. Old men have been heard to say that "the best 
of it all was to hear Uncle Eb. Nutting play the fife". 



88 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

He could not read notes, but he composed many orig- 
inal pieces. He m Polly Merrick. When their eldest 
son was nearing twenty, Polly died of consumption. 
She had been much concerned for her youngest, little 
Jonathan, a child of four. Three days before her own 
decease, the little fellow was fatally scalded, and was 
buried with her. "Uncle Eb." was broken-hearted. 
He designed a monument representing the mother and 
child standing together, and felt that life had no more 
joy for him. He would only play certain pieces which 
the child had liked. Very soon he also passed away. 

He is spoken of as a specially good farmer. He built 
wonderful stone walls around the place, some of which 
were finely finished and capped with smooth flat slabs, 
taken from the Ouaboag River. Building a sixty-foot 
barn ,he sought for miles around until he found a single 
stick of that length for a ridge-pole. 

e 40 Lucy. 1781, m Jesse Hamilton. 

e 41 Abner, 1783, m Matilda Bishop. 

e 42 Asa, m Olive Wood. 

n Children of d 37 James 4, Jona. 3, Ebenezer. 2, 
John 1. 

e 43 Betsy, 1775, m Laban Ballou. 
e 44 James o, 1777. e 45 Polly, 
e 46 Gideon, m Rizpah Ballou. 
e 47 Benjamin, settled at Darien N. Y. 

Ill Children of d 38 David 4 (Leverett), Jona. 3, 
Eben. 2, John 1. m Dinah Carpenter. 

e 48 Sally Carpenter, 1774. d 1837. 

e 49 Ebenezer 5, 177(). e 50 Nathan Carpenter, 
177'.). e 51 Alfred 17S1. 

e 52 Porter. 1783. m Anna Fitts. 

e 53 Charlotte, 1785. 



LITTLE JOHN OF NORTHAMPTON 89 

e 54 Alace, 1788. e 55 Nancy, 1793. e 56 David 
5, 1795. m Cynthia All)ee. 

e 57 Cheney, 1797. d 1866. Remained at Leverett. 

IV Children of d 43 Ebenezer 4, 3, 2, John 1. Cam- 
bridgeport. "Lost at sea." m Mary Russell. 

e 58 John. A child of four when orphaned. His 
mother's friend, Mrs Hunt, took the little lad, safely 
trussed up behind her on horseback, to Northhampton, 
where he found a home with the Lymans, who lived 
near the toll-bridge. At nine, when the "Alarm" came, 
Johnny was helping the hired man to plow. The man 
was a Minute-man, and instanth' left for the seat of 
war, telling Johnny to bring home the oxen. The lad 
supposed the red-coats were already in town, and dared 
not come home till dark. Soon, he began to long for 
the day when he could enlist. At 16 he did so, and 
saw service in guarding old Fort Ticonderoga — which by 
that time did not need much guarding. 

Grown to maturity, he m(l)Esther Smith, and settled 
at So. Amherst, his fann being on the old Bay Road. 
He m(2), Catherine Smith of Whately. His descen- 
dants form one of our most numerous and interesting 
branches. 

e 59, a very young child, of whose name the E. G. is 
uncertain, giving William ?(as possibly the name). 
Little John was also uncertain, I am inclined to think 
the name may have been Russell, after the mother's 
maiden name. And that the child reappears at Hen- 
derson N. Y., as the founder of a line which traces no 
farther back. Farther research now in progress may 
prove or disaprove this supposition. 

V Children of d 50 Thomas 4 (Westford) John 3, 
Ebenezer 2, John 1. m Sibyl (Prescott?) 



90 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

e 60 John :>, 17S2. 
e 61 Jonas. 17So, m Marv Spauldinj;. 
e 62 Hannah 1785. e 63 Thomas 17S7. 
e 64 Rebecca, 1789, m Jona. Emerson, 
e 65 Benjamin, 17*)1. e 66 Buckley Prescott (usu- 
ally known as Prescott Nutting), 1796. m Lucy Pierce. 
e 67 Abel, 1799. 

D 

I Children of d 57 Samuel 4, James 3, Jonathan 2, 
John 1 . Danvers. This Samuel was a Revolutionary 
Surgeon. 

e 67 Benjamin Franklin. An artist. I used to see 
many of his paintings when visiting Boston. Mostly 
fruit or game pieces. He was alive in the 1870's, and 
assisted Miss Marv in her researches, but died soon af- 
ter. He illustrated a tendency in the Jonathan branch 
to celibacy, being unmarried. On account of this ten- 
dency, and many early deaths, this branch of the clan 
has become few in number. 

II Children of d 60 John the Loyalist, James 3, 
Jonathan 2, John 1. Of ten, only four are supposed to 
have grown up. 

e 68 Mary, m Capt. McNeal, of the Royal North 
Carolma Regiment, e 69 John, a Captain in the 
Royal Artillery. Unmarried. 

e 70 Sophia, m Grant, son of .Captain Grant of the 
12(1 Highlanders (tlie famous Black Watch). 

e 71 James Walton, a barrister, Halifax, 50 years 
])rothonotary and clerk for the crown, of the Supreme 
. Court of Nova Scotia m . . . . name not given. 

Starred Names, r-)th Generation 
I Children of d 68 Nathaniel 4, of Concord, Natha- 



FIFTH GENERATION . 01 

niel 4, Groton, *2 *1. m (1) Mary Wheeler, (2) Sarah 
Barron. 

e 72 Betty, d young. 

e 73 Stephen. At Charlestown, but finally settled 
at or near Syracuse N. Y., where he became a salt-maker. 

e 74 Abraham. Settled at Westminister, Vt., m Ex- 
perience Avery, e 75 Elizabeth. 

Some desc. add, Nathaniel W., or sometimes William. 
But I find no record of his birth at Concord.) 

e 76 Oliver, b at Groton 1768. One family tracing 
back to Addison E.G., give Jacob instead of Oliver as 
the father of Addison. This is evidently a mistake, but 
suggests that Oliver may have been the son of Jacob 5. 
In that case the pedigree would be easy, as only one 
Jacob 4 is possible. The other is distinctly stated to 
have "died childless". But was Oliver the son of 
Jacob ? 

Whoever descended from Oliver amounted to some- 
thing. He "made his way from Groton to Mason, N. 
H., by blazed trees, and his log-cabin was one of the 
first in that region." He m Naomi Blood of Groton. 

e 77* Russell. Appears at Henderson N. Y., as the 
first of a line mostly found in New York. I conjecture 
that he may have been the lost infant son of Ebenezer 4 
and Mary^RusseU, and brother of little John who was 
carried to 'Northampton. E. G. gives the name doubt- 
fully as "William?" It may have been William Rus- 
sell , the latter coming into common use and the former 
forgotten. He evidently belongs to this generation. 

e 78* George Veraines, of Waterloo, Prov. Quebec, 
son of Captain David, conjectured to have been a son of 
Nathaniel of Groton. 



[)2 XUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

D 

IV The line of c 17 John A. M. of Salem drops out. 

\' Also, that of c 18 Jonathan of Wrentham-Attle- 
boro. Researches in Maine may possibly recover a 
record. 



The Sixth Generation 



i Children of e 1 Zachariah, reported by E. G. at 
Springfield Vt. This line must await farther research. 

II Children of e 2 John 5, brother of above, John 4, 3, 
2, 1. The most direct line among the desc. of John 1. 
This John is also reported as "at Springfield Vt., where 
their posterity are numerous". This was true when 
written, but after a century no trace of this family re- 
mains in that region, and only a presumption allows us 
to name Thomas, below, as probably one of this family. 
The names of the children of this John 5 are all of re- 
cord at Groton, so that the removal to Vermont must 
have been late in the life of the father. I conjecture 
that not many years after the removal, the father may 
have died, and the family, like that of my own father, 
have been thus suddenly scattered, leaving no trace in 
the neighborhood. The record at Groton is: 

f 1 Mary, d in inf. f 2 Joseph, 1762. f 3 Elijah, 
1763. 

f 4 Thomas, 1766. I think this Thomas is the 
same who in 1803 built his bark-roofed log-cabin on the 
hin still called Nutting Hih, in W. Monroe, N. Y., not 
far from Oswego. Around the foot of this hill ran the 
old Indian trail from Ft. Stanwix to Sackett's Harbor. 
Thomas was a recognized humorist, and many of his 
sayings are still current in the region. He married 
Betsy Goit, who naturally was a very active woman. 
As a physician, she traveled the wilderness far and wide. 
It is remembered that she prepared a famous tonic (no 
doubt the secret may now be safely told) by allowing 



94 NUTTING GENEALOOV 

a handful of nails to oxidize in maple sap. As her rec- 
ord in the next generation will show, she did not ne- 
glect her duties at home. 

f 5 Mary l>(1. f 6 John (i. f 7 Mercy, f 8 Jo- 
siah Woods, f 9 Amos, f 10 Elizabeth, f 11 Elisha. 
f 12 Olive. None of these has been traced except 
Thomas, and his origin is not certain. 

III Children of e 3 Jonathan 5, Ephraim 4, Daniel 
o. John 2, 1. m Lucy Parker. 

f 13 Peter. Removed- when very young with his 
parents to Otisfield, Me. A carpenter, and taught his 
trade to the Peter who returned and lived in Groton. 

IV Children of e 5 Nathan, bro of above, who also 
settled at Otisfield, Maine, m Rhoda Lewis, of Pepper- 
ell, Mass. 

f 14 Silas, f 15 Peter. Peter returned to Groton, 
and was a near neighbor of my father. A man of ge- 
nial disposition, and fine presence. An excellent car- 
penter. I remember that he conducted my father's fu- 
neral, in 1<S4(). Undertakers were then unknown away 
from the cities, and I think the Town appointed a Con- 
ductor of Funerals. He was at one time a Captain of 
Militia, and was always known as "Captain Peter", m 
. . . Lawrence, f 16 Rhoda. f 17 Lyman, f 18 Thomas. 
f 19 Luther, f 20 Nathan. 

V Children of e 6 Ephraim 5, 4, Daniel o, John 2, 1. 
bru of Jonathan and Nathan, above, m Mary Waits 
(?-illcgible) of Groton. 

f 21 Silvia, f 22 Charlotte, f 23 Mary, f 24 Pru- 
dence, f 25 Asa. f 26 Henry, f 27 Luther, f 28 Philip, 
f 29 Calvin, f 30 Caroline. Information from Car- 
ohne, since deceased, i have been able to trace only 
tlie lines nf (\'ilvin, IIenr\', and Carohne. 



HOUSE BUILT ON THE ORIGINAL ACCOMODATIONS 95 



VI Children of e 19 Daniel 5 (Westford), Daniel 4, 
3, John 2, 1. 

f 31 Ede. 

f 32 Rebecca, m (1) Jonathan Emerson of Dunstable 
(2) Phineas Trowbridge, f 33 Samuel, 1784. Lives 
at Yolo, Cal., a raisin-grower, f 33 Mary, m. . . . Stone, 
f 35 Ralph. 1787, settled at Troy, N. Y., m Hanna 
Wright, f 36 Stephen, 1789. f 37 Daniel (i, 1791. 
f 38 Sibyl, m (1) Carpenter, Oneida, N. Y., (2) re- 
turning to Westford, Abraham Lampman, (3) John 
Flint of Concord, whose first wife had been her sister 
Roxy, below. 

f 39 Luther, m Katherine Wait, and settled at New 
Haven, Vt. 

f 40 Asia, 1796. m Clarissa Wilkins, and built the house 
now occupied by his grandchildren Elmer E., and Amy 




House built by Asia Nuttiag 



9 \UTTI\0 GENEAI.OrxV 

Nutting Irish. This house stands on the original "ac- 
commodations" of John 1, from which he removed to 
Groton. The early dwelling stood on the opposite side 
of the road. See ]>age 45. 

f 41 Nancy, m John Young. George, a son of tliis 
union is known in Oregon as The Wool King, f 42 
William, ISOl. Settled at Concord, m Charlotte Flint, 
of Concord, f 43 Louisa. 1804. f 44 Roxy, first wife 
of John Flint of Concord. 

VII Ch: of e 20 Abel "the musketeer" of Lisbon, 
Me. 5, Daniel 4, 3, John 2, 1 . m Rhoda Coombs of Bath, 
who lived to her hundredth year, but did not quite com- 
plete it. 

f 46 Aaron, f 47 Eunice, f 48 Rebekah. 

f 49 Joshua, whose son Aaron J. P. was my infor 
mant. f 50 Peggy, f 51 Abel, jr. f 52 Abner. f 53 
Betsy, f 54 Deliverance (Delia)' f 55 Rhoda. f 56 
Seth. f 57 Irene, f 58 James. 

''AH lived to be men and women. At one time there 
were forty desc. of Abel 5, of the name, here at Lisbon; 
now I am the only one left." (This family has proved 
rather difficult to trace.) 

VIII Children of e 23 Ezekiel 5, 4, Daniel 3, John 
2. 1. 

f 59 Ezekiel 6. Groton. m Sallv Nutting, of Plymouth, 
X. II. 

IX Children of e 28 William oC'Esq.") William 4, 
Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. m (1) Mrs Susana Danforth, 
^2) Mrs Mary HuV)bard. 

f 60 William (), 1779. Learned the carpenter's trade, 
but later fitted for college, and was grad. from Dart- 
mouth. Paid his way, and a little more, by working 
at his trade. Became Preceptor of Orange County 



WILLIAM ESQ., OF RANDOLPH 



97 



Grammar School, Randolph, Vt. a classical academy, 
now State Normal School. Studied Law, and became 
a prominent lawyer in the region. Had the reputation 
of settling more disputes than he allowed to come into 
Court, m Mary Hubbard, his step-sister. A man of 




William Nutting, Esq. of Randolph 

ability, and highly esteemed. His favorite studies were 
the classics, and even to old age it was his custom to 
read almost daily from some of the masterpieces in the 
original. In later life he was troubled with somnol- 
ency at church (possibly not wholly his fault) , and one 
of my most vivid remembrances presents him standing 
bolt upright, in order to keep awake during the rather 
long sermon. He d 1863. 



9.S NUTTING GENEALOGY 

f 61 Susanna, 17S1. m Zara Patch, and became the 
foremother of 

Tlic Patch Branch. 

Shed in 1821. 

f 62 Sarah, 1793. m Shadracli Bardeen. I remember 
being taken to see my aunt Bardeen, during her last ill- 
ness, and of meeting Mr Bardeen.* 

f 63 Jane Boynton. Reported as in her girlhood an 
unusually robust and daring person, fond of out-door 
sports and employments. One of her amusements 
was to get her brother to drive the unbroken colts up to 
the fence, when she would mount and away, without 
even a halter. She m Jacob Symonds, a U. S. detect- 
ive, employed in breaking up the numerous gangs of 
counterfeiters, who took advantage of the newness of 



*The Baideens of America are descended from the Bardens of Yorkshire, England. 
"Record of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution" (i. 595) 
gives .30 variations of spelling of the name Bardeen. In the "Records of the Town of Hins- 
dale, Mass.", the same town clerk records the bans of Zephenia Bardeen, the marriage of 
Zepeniah Harden, and the church record of Zephaniah Bardin. William" T. Bardeen (g 7.3) 
was so entered on the militia roll of Fitchburg in 1848 and the next year as Wm. Barden. 
The Bardens are among the older families of Yorkshire. John de Barden, who was lord 
mayor of York in 1376, was the son of Thomas, who married the daughter and heir of 
Thomas Thyrkell ; and grandson of Roger, whose daughter m. Roger Mayerolles, Lord of 
Tinsloo. John Barden's daughter married Henry Wyman, also lord mayor, and became 
the grandmother with many greats prefixed of the Earl of Strafford, beheaded in 1641. The 
family gave the name to the manor of Barden, in the parish of Hanxwell, three miles N.E. 
of Leybum, and several representatives have always been named in the record of the land- 
owners of Great Britain. But there were younger sons who had to be provided for, anil 
in 10.37 William Barden was among those selected by the Plymouth colony as one of the 
"youths of 14 years of age, of good habits" to send over as apprentices. He was apprenticed 
to John Barker of Plymouth. According to the Plymouth records (i. 110) the said Barker 
was "to teach the said William Barden the trade of bricklayer, and in the end of'his term 
to give him twenty bushells of Indian come, two suites of apparell, & an ewe goate lambe". 
He got more, for in 1660 he married his master's daughter and in 1684 moved to Middleboro. 

He became a land-owner, and a part of the town is still known as "The Barden hills". 
His homestead is still owned in the family, and a picture of "The old Barden house" is 
given in the last history of the town (190()). He d 1692, and his estate was divided among 
1.3 children. His great grandson Thomas, afterward a revolutionary soldier, ni Hannah 
Nelson in Upton, Apr. 23, 1772, and Shadrach was the third of their live chiliiren. 



JOSEPH DANFORTH NUTTING ' 99 

the government and the infancy of the arts of engraving 
and minting. He was much older than she, and soon 
died. She became a sort of General Helper in her 
neighborhood, and was very useful. Healthy and mer- 
ry, her visits at my father's were looked forward to with 
delight, and no treat was greater than a visit on our 
part to her home, where she had endless curiosities 
to show us. She lived well into her nineties, but I have 
not the date of her death. Her favorite text was, "A 
merry heart doeth good like medicine." 

f 64 Joseph Danforth, 1787. My Father. Emphat- 
ically a man of peace, yet at one time a Captain of 
Militia, and always known as "Captain J. D." At one 
time when war with France threatened, and a French 
frigate menaced the ports of Eastern Mass., he and his 
company were called out, and served for some time as 
coast guard, but the expected attack was never made. 
Doubtless the show of Militia greatly frightened the 
enemy! I have the sword he used at that time, and 
it has been supposed to have belonged to his grand- 
father William the Lieutenant, and to have been worn 
by him at Lexington. But of this I cannot find any 
certain proof. 

There is extant a certain letter from Mary Hubbard, 
step-sister, and at the time fiance'e of William of Ran- 
dolph, in which she tells her future husband: 

"A Miss Lucinda Keep is now visiting here (at the old 
Nod Farm) and if she pleases Sir and Ma'am, I think 
your brother Joseph will marry her. Atid if she does 
not, I do not think he will marry any one." 

Miss Lucinda had the good fortune to please Sir and 
Ma'am, and Joseph married her. She was the daugh- 
ter of Capt. Jonathan Keep, then landlord of what is 
now called the Old Groton Inn, (see ill. page 30). The 



100 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

ten children of this union of my father and mc^ther, all 
of whom grew up and married, were always glad that 
she found grace in the eyes of "Sir and Ma'am". 

Unless there was a sort of heroism in forcing that rath- 
ther barren old farm to provide for a family which rare- 
ly counted less than twenty, during almost the whole 
of his mature life, then my father was no hero. But it 
certainly required heroic industry, wise planning, and 
no end of courage. Not only the ten of his own brood 
who grew up, but six or seven orphans who succeeded 
each other, were thus provided for. And the place be- 
ing the old home of several generations, every summer 
found the house full of visitors. To this fact we chil- 
dren owed our broad ideas of life, and our aspirations. 
But how we were all fed, clothed, and schooled, from 
the scanty crops of that mostly very poor though large 
fann, is a great question. I think my parents were 
heroic. 

My father died in the spring of 1S43, of a sudden pneu- 
monia. My mother followed him in just a year, and 
the family scattered very soon, never to be reunited on 
earth. 

If I could have space, I should like to speak of many 
things which illustrate the changed conditions since 
those times. I well rememljer a day when my father 
and his friend Joseph Blood spent many hours in the 
woods, hunting for a tree with the right twist in it to 
form the mold-board of a new plow that was needed. 
In my childhood there were none l)ut such wooden 
plows. Also I recall the wonderful horse-rake invented 
l)y my father, which "would rake as much hay as four 
men". It was a clumsy thing, with long teeth only on 
one side. But many came to see the wonderful thing, 
and S( )( )n it was replaced by better machines. We never 



PROFESSOR RUFUS 101 

bought any lumber, though we did considerable build- 
ing. We drew our own logs to the mill. We took one 
or two hides to Mr. Dix the tanner, and the next year 
got half of them back in leather, which made our boots. 
We took our own wool to the carding-mill, my sisters 
spun the yarn, and my mother wove the cloth for our 
clothing. The very last suit I received before the fam- 
ily broke up, was of "sheep's gray" grown upon the 
farm. 

f 65 Ralph, d in inf. 

f 66 Rufus, 1793. Encouraged by his brother, he 
also was grad. at Dartmouth. His first employment 
seems to have been as preceptor of a"Female Seminary" 
at Catskill N. Y. As he could not have been much 
above his majority, he needed all his unusual dignit}- and 
piety for so delicate a position. He married one of his 
pupils. Miss Marcia Manning. The wedding was in 
church, according to the forms of the Dutch Reformed 
Church, which in those days made marriage an event 
so solemn that it was hardly joyful. The ceremony 
took a full hour, during which the parties remained 
standing. The husband left an exquisite account^'of the 
proceedings, making a story as quaint and picturesque 
as can be imagined. But for its sacredness, it deserves 
to be in print. 

Later, he also became preceptor of the Randolph 
Academy. I hope the "white black-board" which he 
made at that time is still preserved. On a dead-white 
background, he had written out, with an artist's brush, 
the entire paradigm of the Greek Verb. While at Ran- 
dolph, he published "Nutting's English Grammar". In 
this work, for the first time, the attempt was made to' 
represent the true simplicity of English. He discarded 
some modes of the verb, as being irrational and needless, 



102 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

and the passive voice, which really has no existence as 
a j2:ranimatical form in our language ; and in many ways 
simplified and reduced to the actual the whole science. 
The work was long used in the schools of Vermont, and 
though now superseded, it has exerted a strong influence 
upon later writers. 

At the establishment of the new College for Ohio, at 
Hudson, he became professor of Latin and Greek in its 
faculty, a place which he filled for many years. The 
needs of his growing family, and the small and uncer- 
tain salary of his chair led him to return to academy 
work, then much more promising. High schools were 
then rare, and the academy was in its glory. His popu- 
larity as a teacher was also great, that he had only to 
announce the opening of a school, though in some little 
hamlet, to have it crowded with pupils. I began my 
own fitting for college in one of those schools, and very 
easily caught the enthusiasm w^hich he inspired. In his 
hands Latin and Greek were no longer dead languages, 
and English was a revelation. 

He continued in this work till he had filled out fully 
fifty years of teaching. Then for some years he became 
a city missionary in Detroit, where he d in 1878, of sheer 
old age. His wife Marcia had preceded him by some 
years, and he had m (2) Mrs Mary Eaman, who at last 
advices was still living. ■ 

f 67 Anna, 179(). A successful teacher from matur- 
ity till 182G, when she m Jacob Chamberlain, a farmer 
of Sharon, Conn, becoming the foremother of 

The Chamberlain Branch . 

All her children were born at Sharon. Later, Mr 
Chaml)erlain bought a farm near the college at Hudson, 
()., in which her favorite brother Rufus, above, had be- 
come a professor. Here the children were reared, with 



THE CHAMBERLAIN BRANCH 103 

all the advantages of the college. After her death in 
ISGO, I had from her brother the professor a delightful 
appreciation of her character.- He represents her as 
having been a lovely and interesting girl — warm-hearted 
and susceptible, yet these qualities balanced by unusual 
good sense and self-control. Her enthusiasms were all 
of the noblest. 

She at once became a power for good in the commu- 
nity and the college. Her distinguished son, the Mis- 
sionary, states that she influenced no less than fourteen 
able young men to become ministers or missionaries. 

f 68 Thomas Barrett, d inf. 

X Ch: of e 31 Abel of Weathersfield, 5, William 4, 
Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. m Polly Boynton. 

f 69 Timothy. 

f 70 Cynthia, m Peterson. (Ch: Cynthia; Vienna, m 
Dr. Bacon, lived at Nashua, Iowa.) 

f 71 William, a teacher and Sup't of Schools, and 
settled at Pomfret, Vt 

f 72 Abel, jr, farmer and "manufacturer", m Mary 
Furber. 

f 73 George, f 74 Cyrus, f 75 Mighill. (Rev?) 
f 76 Guy, a farmer, at Stowe, Vt. 
f 77 Stoddard, a merchant, Claremont N. H. 
f 78 Euphemia, m Rufus Pratt, lived at Lowell; 
(Ch: Rufus, Asbury, both d at Hartford, Ct.) 
f 79 Jane, f 80 Polly. 

XI Children of e 32 Eleazer 5, 4, 3, m Sarah Kemp, 
of Groton. 

f 80 Jonathan. Settled at Danville, Vt. m Laura 
Marguerite Root. 



104 NUTTING GENEALOG.!r^ 

Starred Names, Sixth Generation 

I Cliildren of e 73 Stephen 5, Nathaniel of Concord 
4. Nathaniel of Groton :^,* 2, 1. 

f 81 a Stephen Hill. 

II Children of e 74 Abraham 5, brother of Stephen, 
above. 

f 82 Frederick, f 83 Hiram, f 84 Mary Ann. 
f 85 Nathaniel (Westminister, Vt.) 

111. '''Children of e 78 George Veraines o, Capt. 
David 4, (Nathaniel of Groton 3 ?) I think this proba- 
ble, but it is not proven. Capt. David (d 75) may have 
been born (as family tradition has it) at Michford,Vt, and 
his father may have come over with the British army of 
conquest. . If so, his connection with the family was pre- 
American. But I incline to the Groton theorv, as al- 
ready set forth. He m Elizabeth Blanchard. Lived 
at Waterloo, Pro v. Quebec. 
• f 86 Vespasian, m Harriet Peasly. 

f 87 William, who lived at Lowell, Mass. (deceased 
many years since). There were also four daughters, of 
whom I have no report. 

TV. ^Children of e 79 Moses 5, Groton, H, 'A, 2, 1. 
vSettled at Reading, Vt, whre there is a mountain named 
for him, "Mt Moses". Born in Groton 1781 , d at Stowe, 
Vt. isn:^. m Lydia Nutting of New Tpswich. 

f 88 Arvilla, m Leonard Washburn, farmer. Had 
five sons and a daughter, names not given. 

f 89 John Warren, 1<S14. A carpenter, Woodstock, 
Vt. m Elvira Sarah Moore, of Woodstock, 1839. She 
d 1883, he 1887. (I am continuing inquiry concerning 
the ancestry of Moses and Ejihraim, below.) 



OLIVER OF MASON 105 

V *Children of e 80 Ephraim, brother of above. 
Reading, Vt. m Esther Hutchison. 

f 90 Joel, 1820, m Mary A. Rogers. 
f 91 Samuel Hutchinson, 1825. m Julia A. Spaulding 
of Cavendish Vt. d at Andover, Vt., 1886. 
f 92 Esther, m Levi Walker, f 93 Mary. 

VI '^'Children of e 77 Russell 5, of Henderson, N. Y. 
I think this Russeh may have been the younger 
brother of John of Northampton, whose mother's 
name was Mary Russell : but as yet the proof is lacking. 

f 95 Leonard Joy. m Mary Johnson. Lived at Hen- 
derson, N. Y. 

VII *Chiklren of e 81 "John, of Mass. or N. H." 5. 
f 96 Moses P. m Mary J. Corey. I have little doubt 

that this John was of Groton origin. Corey is also a 
Groton name. But the lack of knowledge on the part 
of my informant makes it impossible to trace the 
pedigree. 

VIII. *Ch: of e 76 Oliver, 5, of Groton-Mason. m 
Naomi Blood. 

There is a discrepancy as to the sons of Oliver. 
Some report four, others five, and one gives six, which 
appears to be correct but only one gives the name nec- 
essary to make up the six, and that one does not give 
the names in order. Some though give seven, and add 
William. 

f 97 Luther, m Ruth Adams. 

f 98 Eben. f 99 EH. 

f 100 Abiel Abbott, (variously returned as "Bile", 
"Bial", and "Abial"; once, as .above, which is no doubt 
correct.) f 101 Phineas. 

f 102 Addison E. m (1) Mary C. Loveland(2) 

Addison E. is always placed last, but Phineas never 



106 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

finds his place in the order. I venture to place him 5th. 
Some omit Phineas and add William, which would give 
sci'cn, since both are given in some returns. 

IX f 103 *Joshua. of Jaffrey N. H. . No record 
of earlier ancestry. I think, from Westford. 

X f 104 *AIbert. of Bakersfield, Vt. Ancestry un- 
known. From Berkshire, Vt. 

XI f 105 ^Marcus, son of Nathan (latest discovery) 
of Beverly, near Salem. As all the four branches of the 
family have been at times represented at Salem and vi- 
cinity, it is difficult to discover to which of them Mar- 
cus belonged. Presumption is in favor of descent from 
Captain John of Pepperell, in which case he would be of 
the James Branch(Second son of John 1). I think his 
family could establish the facts by patient inquiry at 
Salem, Beverly, and possibly other neighboring towns. 
Marcus came to New York when about twenty-one. In 
1836 he m Louisa Walsh, the wedding being in Trinity 
Church. He became a Captain of passenger steam 
boats on the Hudson. In 1S49 he commanded a com- 
pany of gold-seekers who crossed the plains to Cal. 
"He was a born leader of men." Remained in Califor- 
nia 25 years, then returned to Brooklyn N. Y. 

Returning to the regular line— 

B 
Descendants of James 2 

I. Ch: of e 34 Captain John of Pepperell, 5, Josiah 
4, James :], 2, John 1. m Martlia Blood. 

f 106 Mary, d in infancv. f 107 John. 1759. f 108 
Martha, 17(31. f 109 Eunice, 1703. f 110 Sarah, 1705. 



SIXTH GENERATION 107 

f 111 Mary, 1768. f 112 Levi, 1770. f 113 Lydia, 1772. 
f 114 William, 1774. m Settled at Salem. 

II. Ch: of e 35 Josiah 5, 4, James 3, 2, John 1. 
Brother of above, m Zeruiah Lawrence. 

f 115 Betty, 1708. f 116 Josiah, 1770. f 117 
Jacob, 1772. f 118 Abijah, 1774. f 119 Abel, 1770. 
f 120 Joel, 1779. f 121 Benjamin, 1781. f 122 
Anna, 1783. 

Josiah 4, father of these two, settled in Norridgewock, 
Me. I have made vain efforts to trace his descendants 
in that region. Have been referred to one Charles, of 
Lewiston as one of them, but get no reply to letters. 

We have no farther record of the James Branch, ex- 
cept in the line of 

William of Salem. 

I ■ . C 

Descendants of Ebenezer 2 

I Ch: of e 38 Jonathan 5, 4, 3, Ebenezer 2. John I. 
Settled at Palmer, m Anna Spear. 

f 123 William. Settled at Bennington, Vt. m Har- 
riet Stark, of Vt. 

f 124 Thomas Banister, 1813. m Marcia White. 
Lived at Cleveland, U. Rockford, 111. and Massillon, 
O, where he kept the Massilon House. Removed to 
E. N. Y. and was in Brooklyn, in real-estate business. 

f 125 Sarah Ann. 

f 126 Abner, 1820. m Eunice Gilbert, d 1862. 

f 127 Jonathan 1823. m (1) Caroline J oslyn, (2) Jane 
Gilbert. 

f 128 Isaac F., 1825, m(l) Julia Fuller, (2) Mrs Barker. 
A daughter of Isaac is'at Mills Seminary, Oakland, Cal. 



lOS NUTTING GENEALOGY 

II. Children of e 39 Ebenezer 5, Jonathan 4, 3, 
Ebenezer 2, Jolm I. 

f 129 Merrick, who "took a colt as his share of the es- 
tate, and went west, settled at Randolph N. Y., \vhere 
he became a successful merchant, lumber-dealer, and 
fanner." 

f 130 Mary, m Samuel Kingsbury. In lier later life 
lived at Geneva. O. At the suggestion of her daughter, 
Mrs Geo. Sadd. I visited her in the ISTO's. She was 
very deaf, and could only be communicated with by 
writing. Mrs Sadd took up a slate and wrote, "Rev. 
Mr Nutting." The venerable lady looked — threw her 
arms around me, and gave me a mother's kiss! And 
then we proceeded to look up our relationship. It ap- 
peared that she was descended from Ebenezer, third 
son of John 1, while I was descended from John, eldest 
son of John 1. Our ancestors had parted from each 
other in 1G93, and so far as known, there had been no 
connection of an}^ sort between their respective descend- 
ants, until that moment. It therefore appeared that 
blood was certainly thicker than w^ater. From Mrs 
Kingsbury I first learned of the important colony of 
descendants of Ebenezer at Brimfield, Leverett, and 
Palmer. 

f 131 Harvey. Settled in Indiana, and was a pop- 
ular teacher in academies. I long ago met pupils of 
his — men in middle life — who spoke very highly of his 
work. 

f 132 Minerva, married, and lived near Erie, Pa. 

f 133 Ebenezer. Also settled in Indiana. Was suc- 
cessful, and finally persuaded Harvey to give up teach- 
ing and settle near him. 

f 134 Abner. Who alone remained at the old place 
in lirimtield. He was a musical genius, and composed 



BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER 109 

many fine pieces for the use of bands. On the occasion 
of the opening of the Boston and Albany R. R. to 
Springfield, he composed and arranged for the various 
instruments, within the space of half-an-hour, a popu- 
lar "Railroad Quickstep", which was immediately per- 
formed with applause. He continued to live in the orig- 
inal house built by Jonathan 3. He m rather late in 
life. Miss Lucy A. Frost now Mrs Ware, Enfield, Mass. 
The daughter of this union, Mary Josephine, (now Mrs. 
Charles S. Davjis of Enfield) was one of the fifth genera- 
tion the old roof had sheltered. 

f 135 Jonathan. Fatally scalded when about four 
years old, and buried with his mother (Polly Merrick), 
who d of consumption three days later. 

HI. Children of e 44 James 5, 4, Jonathan 3, Eben- 
ezer 2, John 1. m (1) Lucinda Harrandon, (2) Rachel 
Morgan Ward, of Mayflower desc. 

f 136 Fatima, 1802. 

f 137 Sophronia, 1804, m Jas. Matterson. d 1832. 
f 138 Julius, 1807, settled at Corry, Pa. 
f 139 Dwight, 1811. 
f 140 Calvin Ward 1817. 
f 141 Lucinda, 1818-1835. 
f 142 Cornelia, 1822, m Calvin Shaw, 
f 143 Sarah Ward, 1823, m Wm. L. Powers, 1853, 
d 1906. 

f 144 James Gideon, d in inf. 

f 145 James Gideon, 1830, d 1848. 

IV Children of e 45 Polly 5, James 4, Jonathan 3, 

Eben. 2, John 1. m Andrew FARRELL(Farren Branch). 

f 146 Theodore, 1808-39. f 147 Maria Nancy, 1814. 

f 148 Sarah Maria, m (1) Keith., (2)Harland. f 149 



no NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Eliza, m David Billings, f 150 Frances Eliza, f 151 
Emily, f 152 Lewis. 

' V Children of e 49 Ebenezer 5, David 4, Jonathan 3, 
Ebenezer 2, John 1. 

f 153 Oliver. 1800. 

f 154 Bryant, 1802. m Matilda Belding of Hatfield. 
f 155 Lucius, 1807 m Eliza Baccus. f 156 Asa, 1809. 
f 157 Harrison, 1812, m Lucy Spear, 
f 158 Alden, 1816. 

f 159 Ransom, 1818, m Mary Stratton. Settled at 
Decatur, Mich. 

VI Children of e 52 Porter 5, David 4, Jonathan 3, 
Ebenezer 2, John 1, m Anna Fitts. 

f 160 Phebe, m Foster Dexter. 
f 161 Polly, m H. Moore, f 162 William, 
f 163 David, settled at Indianola, Iowa, m (l)Lovina 
Clark, (2) Mary Fitts. 
f 164 Sarah, m (1) Childs, (2) Temple. 

VII Children of e 57 Cheney 5, David 4, Jonathan 
3 Ebenezer 2, John 1. 

f 165 Louisa, f 166 Julia, f 167 Mary, m Lyon, 
f 168 Angeline, m ..Grossman, 
f 169 Jane, m. . Graves, 
f 170 Charles, m Lives at Amherst. 

VIII Children of e 58 John 5 (Northampton- Am- 
herst,) Eben. 4, 3, 2, John 1. m (1) Esther Smith, (2) 
Katherine Smith. 

By Esther, 

f 171 George, m Judith Hastings. Remained at 
So. Amherst. 

Four other cli : by this marriage, but all d in inf. 



CHILDREN OF JOHN OF NORTHAMPTON 111 

By Katherine. 

f 172 Rev. Ebenezer, a local preacher M. E. Ch. 

f 173 Esther Smith. 

f 174 Truman. Settled at Faribault, Minn. A banker. 

f 175 Lucretia. 

f 176 Rev. Freeman, a member of M. E. Conference, 
labored in central Mass. 

f 177 Porter. A mason. Went to Akron, O., but 
recalled by the death of his father, settled at North- 
ampton. Was for some years postmaster. Also repre- 
sented the district in the Legislature. Was married 
four times, having children by each marriage. First, 
Margaret Hartwell of Conway. 2d Tryphosa Hartwell, 
older sister of Margeret. 3d Susan Huntington Field, 
a cousin of Marshall Field, who was born in Conway. 
And 4th, Alice Caroline Dam, of Boston, who survives. 

My acquaintance with this branch of the family be- 
gan very accidentally. At a convention at Minneapolis, 
by accident the Rev. Geo. B. Nutting, my cousin, found 
himself seated between two bankers, each of whom 
owned to the name of Nutting. One was John C. Nut- 
ting of Northfield Minn., the other Truman Nutting of 
Faribault. My cousin reported this to me, and I wrote 
the parties. Truman referred me to his brother Porter 
of Northampton, as better informed, and I had a very 
pleasant correspondence with the latter, extending 
through some years. It so happened that I had in the 
Early Genealogy just the information needed to com- 
plete the family story of this branch. I found Mr Nut- 
ting a bright and interesting correspondent, and though 
then nearing four-score, he showed no symptoms of age 
in his letters. Evidently he was a man of strong per- 
sonal characteristics and an honor to our clan. 

f 177a Leonard, d at Boston. 



112 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

f 178 Levi, M. D. Settled in Minn. Was surgeon- 
general of Minn, during the Civil War. 

f 179 Emily, f 180 Emerson, f 181 Catherine. 

IX Children of e 66 Buckley Prescott 5, Rev. 
Thomas 4, John 3, Ebenezer 2, John 1. m Lucy 
Pierce (Westford). 

f 182 Daniel W. Reported living at Rixford Pa., 
l)ut nut heard from. 

f 183 Samuel Sanger. Lived at Boston and Newton, 
but later removed to Chicago, where he d. m (1) Eliza 
Clough, (2) Eliza Fitch. Was the father of Miss Mary 
Eliza of Boston, to whom is due most of the credit for 
facts concerning the Ebenezer and Jonathan Branches. 

D 

f 184, 185 The only representatives of the Jonathan 
Branch in this Sixth Generation of whom I can hear, 
are two sons of one of the daughters of James Walton 
— by name Ferguson. One of these was at the last ad- 
vices a major in the British army, retired on half-pay; 
the other had spent his life as a professor in a Chinese 
college at Naakon, and had returned to England. Both 
were single, and as this report was several years since, 
it is to be supposed that this branch of our family is ex- 
tinct. No farther reference will be made to it, unless 
new facts shall be discovered. 



The Seventh Generation 



Descendants of John 2 

I Children of f 4 Thomas 6, supposed son of John 5, 

4, 3, 2, 1. 

E.G. locates this family at Springfield, Vt, but no trace 
is found there. There seems reason to regard this Thom- 
as as one of this line. Thomas m Betsy Goit. They 
lived at Nutting Hill, W.Monroe, N. Y. (Oswego region). 

g 1 Rev. William. A prosperous farmer and stock- 
raiser, and an effective minister and revivalist, of the 
Free Baptist Church. His home was in sight of Oneida 
lake. He m (1) Sarah Adams, (2) Celia SheiTaan. 

g 2 John. A popular lecturer; lived at Parish, N. Y. 
Single. 

g 3 Henry. Lived at Syracuse; no children. 

g 4 Emila, single. 

g 5 James, settled in Wisconsin. One son, Warren 
D. not heard from. 

g 6 Melitta, m Piatt Martin, Utica. One dau. Lora. 

H Children of f 13 Peter of Groton-Otisfield 6, 
Jonathan 5, Ephraim 4, John 3, 2, 1. m Mary Baldwin, 
of Groton. 

g 8 Sally, 1794. g 9 Newell, 1797. g 10 Emily, 
1801. Ah born at Otisfield Me. Newell m Deborah 
Scribner, 1821. d 1886. 

Ill Children of f 15 Peter of Groton 6, Nathan of 
Otisfield 5, Ephraim 4, etc. 

g 10a Charles L. m Susan Barker Snow. 
g 10b Benjamin Franklin. 



114 NUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

g lOc Mary, in Joseph Fitch. Has descendants at 
Mason City, la. 

IV Ch: of f 17 LymsLTi (>, Nathan 5, Ephraim 4, &c. 

g 11 James L. 1818. Went to Penn. m Anna B. 
Graff of Penn. 

g 12 Charlotte C. m Charles Chadbourne of Groton. 
• g 13 Lyman. 1824. Also went to Penn., later to 
Cal., with the company formed by Gov. Slade. Ac- 
quired wealth, and returned to Penn., where he is sup- 
posed to have become a millionaire by ownership of an- 
thracite coal lands at Lebanon, m Louisa Halter. 

I obtain no reply to letters. He is dead, some years 
since. 

g 14 Dorcas A., 182{), m Moses Eastman, g 15 
Emma A., 1828, m Jas. P. Webb, g 16 Silas W., 1831. 
Single. 

g 17 Albert F., 1835. Alone survives, and furnishes 
the information. Seems vigorous, and is a busy man. 
He m Martha E. Andrews. (Has one son, Silas Dexter, 
who has two children; names not given.) 

V Ch: of f 20 Nathan (i, brother of Lyman, above. 
No report received. 

VI Children of f 35 Ralph, Daniel 5, 4, 3, John 2, 1. 
He lived for a time, it should seem, at Nashua; but in 
1807 he is reported at Troy, or by one desc. at Schaghti- 
coke, N. Y, by another at Easton N. Y. 

g 18 Daniel 7. g 19 Benjamin F. g 20 Almira. 
g 21 William, g 22 Mary Ann. g 23 Byron, g 24 
Thomas, g 25 Merritt. 

VII Children of f 40 Luther 6, brother of Ralph, m 
Catherine Wait. New Haven, Vt. 

g 26 Luther, d in inf. g 27 John Wait, d in inf. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 115 

g 28 George, 1827-1906, m Lorinda Baldwin. 

g 29 Luther 7, 1829, m Margery B. Varney. 

g 30 Samuel Wait, 1831. m Mercy Medder. 

g 31 Mary Jane, 1834, m Henry C. Palmer, 

g 32 Stephen, 1837. m Martha J. Palmer. 

VIII Children of f 41 Asia 6, brother of Ralph, m 
Clarissa Wilkins. 

g 33 Clarissa, 1823. m Joseph Gould of Westford. 
Still living. 

g 34 Alden Bradford, 1835. Settled at Yolo, Cal., 
where he was postmaster, d 1903. 

g 35 Stephen Henry, 1826. m Adeline Drake, d 1900. 

g 36 S byl Augusta, 1828. m Levi Greene of Lowell. 
Her nephew, Caleb L., mentions her kindness in finding 
him a place when he came from Vermont to seek his 
fortune. 

g 37 Luther Lawrence. (The line of Daniel of West- 
ford was connected with the Lawrences of Groton.) 

g 38 Mary, 1832. m (1) Dr Jenner of Vt., in Cal. (2) 
. . . .Bradford. She lives at Portland, Oregon. 

g 39 Sarah Ann, 1833. m Thomas Blodgett. 

g 40 Samuel Lawrence, 1835. m Ellen Asenath 
Chickering. 

g 41 Daniel Washington, 1837-1900. m Mohie For- 
sythe. 

g 42 Martha Cole. 

g 43 Benjamin Franklin, 1841. d 1904. m Josephine 
Nichols of Oneida N. Y. Benjamin inherited the old 
home, on the "accommodations" allotted to John 1, as a 
Proprietor at Chelmsford, of which Westford was then 
a part. 

IX Children of f 42 Nancy, sister of last three, m 
John YOUNG. 



116 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

g 44 George, known in Oregon as The Wool King. 

X Children of f 43 William 6, brother of Ralph, m 
Charlotte Flint of Concord, where he settled He was 
the twelfth child of Daniel 5. 

g 45 William Horace, m Lucy Whitcomb of Win- 
chendon, where he settled. 

XI Ch: of f 51 Aaron G, Abel 5 (e 20), and Rhoda 
Coombs. 

g 46 Harvey, m Martha Saunders, g 47 Mary, m 
William Hayes, g 48 Elvira, m W. E. Hawes. g 49 
William, m Susan Foy. Settled at Augusta, Me. 

XII Children of f 56 Seth G, Abel 5 (Lisbon, Me.),' 
Daniel 4, 3, John 2, 1. 

g 50 Albion. A soldier in the Civil War, d in the 
service. 

XIII Children of f 59 Ezekiel 6, 5, 4, Daniel 3, 
John 2, 1 . m Sahy Nutting, of Plymouth N. H. 

g 51 Charles P. g 52 George H. g 53 Mary J. 

g 54 James F. m SaUie Manly of Weston, Vt, 1861. d 
1895. Lived at New Ipswich, N. H. 

XIV Children of f 60 William, Esq. of Randolph,Vt. 
6, William Esq. of Groton 5, Lieut. William 4, Jonathan 
3, John 2, 1. 

g 55 Eliza Ann, 1810. m Rev. Samuel A. Benton, af- 
ter the death of her sister, below. They lived for many 
3^ears at Armada, Mich., where he was pastor of the 
Cong, church. About 18G0 he became pastor at Ana- 
mosa, Iowa. Was chaplain of the . . . Reg't Iowa Vol. 
during the later years of the war. She d 1864. 

g 56 William 7. Three years at Western Reserve 
College; left on account of ill health. Was a fine me- 
chanic, and became a builder of pipe organs, first at 



TWO EARLY ORGAN MAKERS 117 

Randolph, but later established himself at Bellows 
Falls. He is noted in Appleton's Cyclopedia as one of 
the pioneer organ-builders in the United States. His 
instruments were of excellent quality. He died at Bel- 
lows Falls, 1869. m Mary A. Bradshaw, of Montpelier. 

g 57 Sarah Maria. 1813. First wife of Rev. S. A. 
Benton, above, d at Saxton's River, Vt., 1841. 

(3f this marriage there was one son, Samuel N. d at 18. 

g 58 Charles. Grad. Western Reserve, 1840. Law- 
yer in partnership with his father, m Cordelia Oilman. 
Removed to Randolph, Wis., where he was a farmer and 
lawyer, d 1893. She, 1878. 

g 59 Rufus. Began the making of reed-organs, 
among the first in the country. At that time each 
maker gave his instrument some special name.. His 
was called the Eolicon. It was largely copied from an 
English instrument, but with improvements. An uncle 
in Brattleboro gave him room and use of power in his 
large cabinet factory, and from this beginning several 
apprentices or employees of the shop were led also to 
make organs or small instruments called melodeons. 
These men separated, and several of the great reed-or- 
gan factories resulted. 

The famous Estey factory is one of these which de- 
veloped on the spot. The Burdette, the Carpenter, and 
several other noted organs, had the same origin. He re- 
moved to Michigan in 1845, and soon after to Hudson, 
0., but returned to Randolph, and for some years car- 
ried on a factory there. Later, he turned his attention 
to other inventions, and was known as an Inventor. 
d from indirect afTects of injuries received in a run- 
away, m Sarah, dau. of Joseph D. Niitting of Groton. 
See below, g 80. 

g 60 Rev. George Barrett. Grad. Dartmouth 1847. 



lis 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. in Turkey, 1S5,V1869. Af- 
ter long and successful work, was recalled at the in- 
stance of certain colleagues, because he was supposed 
to favor the theological views of Horace Bushnell — 
views which have long since become nearly universal. 
Refused an}- trial or vindication, he turned to Home Mis- 
sionary work, in which he passed the rest of his life, 
d "of old age" at Black Mountain, N. C, whither he had 
gone for his own and his son's health, 189S. 




■•>.. 



Rev. David H. Nutting 




REV. DAVID H. NUTTING 



120 NUTTIiNG GENEALOGY 

g 61 David Hubbard. 1829. M. D., Philadelphia, 
18.53. Missionary Physician in Turkey, from 1854, 
(Diarbekir, Aleppo, and Oorfa). Returned on account 
of ill health, 1876. Practiced at Chicopee, Mass, seven 
years, then at Randolph, Vt. m 1854 Mary Elizabeth 
Nichols, of Haverhill, Mass., a teacher in Bradford Acad- 
emv. Both still living (1908) on a farm at Randolph. 

g 62 Mary Olivia. Grad. of Mt. Holyoke 1852. 
Teacher at various schools till 1870, when she became 
Librarian at Mt Holyoke. Retired in 1901, and was 
made Librarian Emeritus. Resides near the College, 
and is engaged in literary work. Is the author of sever- 
al volumes. 

Alumnae of the College whom I have met speak of 
her work as librarian in terms of appreciation which her 
modesty does not allow me to reprint. 

The Patch Branch 

XV Children of f 61 Susanna PATCH 0, William 
5, 4, Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. 

g 63 Susanna, 1807-1821. 

g 64 Anna, 1808-1876. m John Winn, farmer, 
Hudson, N. H. 

g 65 Lydia, 1810-1844. m Rev. C. Sharp, pastor 
Con,L,^ ch., Atwater, O. 

g 66 Zara, 1811. A blacksmith at Childs's shop, 
Gn^tcju. Still living at Groton(1908). m (1) Mrs Emily 

(Childs) Fitch, 1840, (2) 1852. I visited Mr Patch 

in 1898, and he was in excellent health and vigor. At 
that time he drove me to all the points of interest in 
Groton, in particular pointing out the (again hidden) 
well, which marks the site of the "garrison" of John 1 
which had then lately been discovered and identified. 
The well, as he pointed it out, lies in the traveled track 




George Hale KTuttintq-- 

Natjianiel Hubbard Nuttjng-. Mary Elizabeth Nutting-. 

( Mrs.Da.'naid Hubba^rd Nuttino-.) 




MARY OLIVIA NUTTING 



124 



NUTTING GENEALUliV 



t)f a street leading west from Main Street, just north of 
James Brook. It should be in the middle distance of 
the picture, but is hidden by trees and buildings at the 
left of the street. (See illustrations, pp 38,52. The 
latter was originally sent us as the site of the spring. 




Site of Well at John Nutting's Garrison 



but further investigation shows this to be the place.) 
Mr Patch has for some years figured as the Patriarch, 
in all ])ublic celebrations of Groton. 




ZARA PATCH 



126 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



g 67 Rev. Jacob, 1815. Grad. Western Reserve Col- 
lege 1842. m 1845, Jane Bush. This remarkable couple 




Rev. Jacob Patch and Wife 

are still enjoying each other's companionship, and in 
reasonable health and vigor, after sixty-three years of 
connubial happiness. Mr. Patch was some years since 
pictured in The Interior, as the oldest Presbyterian 
minister. He was fortunate in so locating, at Stevens 
Point, Wis., that the increase of values has been a sup- 
port in age. Until very recently (and I think occasion- 
ally still) he and liis wife have driven some seventeen 
miles, where he has gathered a church in a needy com- 
munity, of which he is still regarded as the pastor. Mr. 
Patch and his wife are an honor to us all. 

g 68 William Nutting, b817. Fatally scalded, when 
5 years old. Remembered as a child of unusual 
promise. 



THE BARDEEN BRANCH 127 

g 69 Rev. Rufus, 1819-1891. Grkd. W. R. Coll. 
1841. A Presbyterian minister, but from boyhood his 
ideal was, to be a college president: and most of his life 
was spent as President of La Grange Collegiate Insti- 
tute, at Mishawaka, Ind. Retiring, he removed to 
Missouri, where for some years he owned and edited a 
county paper, m (1, 1844) Sarah Brace, (2, 1846) Julia 
Anna Upson, (3, 1872) Marv Arrouette Davis. 

g 70 Mary. 1821. m, 1842, Pierpont Edwards, mer- 
chant, of Canfield, O., where her life was spent. (I 
feel sure that Mr Edwards was of the famous Edwards 
famih^ which produced Jonathan Edwards.) 

The Bardeen Branch 

XVI Children of f 62 Sarah. mShadrach BARDEEN. 

g 71 Susanna French, m Abel Sawtelle. 

g 72 Daniel Nelson, m Sophia Stone. A blacksmith 
at North Groton, near the bridge now called Hollings- 
worth's(see p. 34). I have pleasantly "immortalized" 
him in my 'Pagus Stories' as "Cousin baniel". A kindly 
man, whose integrity shone in his countenance. His son 
Daniel moved to Fitchburg and bought the farm of 
Asahel Farnsworth below, after the latter's death. 

g 73 William Thomas, 1820-1859. m Mary Ann, 
dau. Asahel and Eunice Farnsworth, of Groton (327 in 
"Farnsworth Memorial", Manti, 1877). Journeyman 
blacksmith in his brother's shop. After the death of my 
brother, who succeeded my father on the farm, this 
cousin bought it, and lived for a time at the old home. 
During this period our publisher was born there — of the 
fifth generation which the old roof had sheltered 
(see page 35). William soon removed to Fitchburg 
and became a clerk in the grocery store of Pond & 
Edwards, which later became W. T. Bardeen & Co.. 



128 



NUTTIXO GENEALOGY 





William Thomas Bardeen 
Mary Elizabeth Bardeen 



Mary Ann Farnsworth Bardeen 



and occupied a brick store he built for it on the cor- 
ner of West and School streets. William was a favor- 
ite cousin at m}' home. On one occasion I remember 
his spending some weeks there, while convalescing 
from an injury. He knew how to interest boys. How 
long we worked at the "blacksmith's puzzle" he brought 
for our amusement ! 

His widow m (2) Samuel A]3pleton Gibson, who re- 
moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., and established the Kala- 
mazoo Paper Co. (See pp. 253-6 of "John Gibson and 
his descendants", Washington, 1900.) In lS8-i she cor- 
responded with me from Kalamazoo, remembering me 
as a small bo v. 

g 72a Jane,m Joel Ames. 

XVII Children of f 63 Jane Boynton, m Jacob 
SYMONDS. Harvard, Mass. 

g 74 Jane, m Fairbanks. Had two sons, no 

report. 

XVIII Children of f 64 Joseph Danforth, my father: 
ni Lucinda Keep. 

g 75 Lucinda Hall, 1812. m 1S30, Josiah Kendall 
Bennett of Groton. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 129 

g 76 Hannah Maria, 1814. Educated at Western 
Reserve Fem.Sem., Hudson, O., and m(l) Rev Nathan 
S. Benham, with whom she went to Bankok, Siam, as 
the first American missionaries to the Chinese. China 
was not then open to missions. Within a year, her hus- 
band was accidentally drowned, and she contracted 
varioloid, which rendered her unable to go on with the 
work. She returned to America, sole passenger on a 
British brig to St Helena, and thence on the whaler On- 
tario to Sag Harbor, L. I. Recovering, she m (2) Dr. 
Isaac N. Knapp, of Dummerston. Vt., by whom she 
had three children. He d in 1856, and some years later 
she came to me in Iowa, her boys proving faithful and 
industrious. Still later they took up homesteads to- 
gether in Minn. She d at Clear Lake, Minn., in 1883. 

g 77 Susanna(Susan), 1816. Educated at Hudson 
O., and m Rev. Chauncey Osborn, a classmate of Mr 
Benham.. Their lives were spent in Home Mission work, 
mostly in Michigan, d about 1865 No children. 

g 78 Martha Elizabeth, 1818. Groton Academy. 
A teacher for some years, winning high esteem, m ,1849, 
Zechariah Marshall of Haverhill (then at W. Groton), 
and later went with the first settlers to Lawrence, Kan. 
After great hardships, settled on a farm at Wakarusa, 
near Lawrence. Worn with long watching with a 
daughter, who had just died when Quantrell's Raid 
took place, brain fever set in, and she never recovered, 
dying in the spring of 1864. One daughter, Emma, sur- 
vived, and later m . .Gibbs, of Vermont. But both 
soon died, and the line is extinct. 

g 79 William Danforth. 1819. m Harriet Shattuck. 
Succeeded to the ownership of the old farm, but d of 
typhoid about a year after his marriage. No children. 

g 80 Sarah Hubbard. A wholesome and attractive 



130 



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Sarah Hubbard^Nutting 

girl, she injured herself by over-lifting when about eigh- 
teen, and became for years an invalid, with small hope of 
active life. While confined to a reclining position, she 
taught herself drawing, in which she soon excelled. 
Partially recovering, she m Rufus, son of William, Esq., 
of Randolph, and removed to Michigan, afterwards re- 
turning to Randolph for some years, and still later set- 
tling at Wheaton, 111. For some years she had been 
teaching drawing in the Academy at Randolph. She 
had also become proficient in oil-painting, which she 
had studied under the best instructors. At Wheaton 
she soon became Principal of the Art Department, a 
position she held until she was eighty, though often ten- 
dering her resignation before that. Her Department 



GEORGE FRENCH NUTTING 131 

supplied Art-teachers for many schools in the surround- 
ing region, and set a high standard of excellence. 

At eighty she removed to Benzonia, Mich., where 
she has since superintended a forty-acre farm, besides 
some art-teaching, and other activities unusual for one 
of her years. Besides myself, she is (1908) the only 
survivor of my father's family. 

g 81 Isaiah Hall, 1824-1865. Groton Academy; 
Williams College, 1847. From boyhood devoted to 
medicine, and M. D. from Berkshire Medical College 
about 1850. Practiced some years, but found the ex- 
posure too much, and turned to teaching. Principal 
at Orford N. H., Holliston, Mass., and later professor at 
Union College, Fulton, 111. Was offered the principal- 
ship at Grinnell college, la., but could not see a future 
for it and declined. Became superintendent of schools 
and principal of high school atElgin, 111, where he d of 
fever in the last days of 1865. m Almira A. Hooker, 
of Hinsdale, N. H. who survived him till 1904. Pub- 
lished an Inductive English Grammar, of some merit. 
Had received a license to preach, and was a suggestive 
and interesting preacher. 




George French Nutting 

g 82 George French, 1827-1893. Groton Academy. 



132 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

A successful teacher, m Mary Boynton of Shirley, a 
niece of Deacon Curtis Lawrence. Settled as a farmer 
at Randolph. Vt. A genial, original man, high in favor 
with voung people who came as students to Randolph. 
I have often been asked by such in later life, "if I was 
anv relation of his" — the reply being followed by grate- 
ful reminiscences of his kindness. He d 1893, from the 
indirect results of a fall, while building. His wife d 
1902. No children. 

g 83 Daniel Chaplin. Named for the venerable Dr. 
Chaplin, life-long pastor at Groton. 1829-1895. 

Went to Kentucky as companion for a sick friend 
when about 21, m Ellen J.Murrell of Bowling Green, Ky., 
and settled there. After the war, removed, with many 
of his neighbors, to Brown Co., Kansas — the region 




Daniel Chaplin Nutting 

which they settled being still called Kentucky Ridge. 
In Kentucky he had been at first a teacher, afterwards 
in the lumber business — his lumber-yard successively 
cleaned out by both armies. Physical unfitness kept 
him out of either army. He was a natural leader of men 
and a most perfect disciplinarian as a teacher; — on 
which account he was much sought for difficult schools. 
He d near Hiawatha, Kas, of fever, in 1895. 



JOHN KEEP NUTTING 133 

g 84 Rev. John Keep, 1832. Myself. Left an orphan 
at twelve, I found shelter with various relatives until the 
fall of 1845, when with my sister and her husband I 
emigrated to Michigan. We traveled by the Erie Canal, 
and were six days from Albany to Buffalo. But it was 
worth while — I used it all in one of my little books, 
long ago. Five years passed in study and work, partly 
in Michigan and partly in Ohio, when I returned east 
and finished for college at Brattleboro, graduating at 
Williams in 1853. Teaching and studying theology, 
in the spring of 1857 I was married(l)to Celeste Eugenia 
Chandler of Chandlers ville, O., and we went at once to 
Iowa. Teaching and preaching for a year, I at length 
began my life work as a pastor in Polk City, a wild little 
place near Des Moines. This was in April, 1858. In 
Sept. of that year I was ordained, so that next month 
(Sept. 1908) will be just fifty years since my ordination 

The early years were full of hardship and sometimes 
of peril, but also full of accomplishment in a small way, 
and so, full of joy. Having previously studied archi- 
tecture, it was my pleasure to plan and build many 
churches, without interfering with my pulpit or pastoral 
duties. The church at Tabor, Iowa, is the largest and 
most costly of these ; that at Austinburg, O.. is the best, 
and nearly as large. That at Gaza, Iowa, is the least 
expensive — being tasteful and attractive, and seating 
nearly 200, while costing only $616. But at Brad- 
ford, Iowa, stands the first and most famous of them 
all, "The Little Brown Church in the Vale". It is 
small, and it is brown (because in those war times w^e 
could only afford brown "mineral paint",), and it is 
"in the vale". But its fame depends upon a little song, 
written by the teacher. Dr. Wm. Pitts, who came to 
train its first choir. The song has the same title, and 




REV. JOHN KEEP NUTTING 



JOHN KEEP NUTTING 135 

it has been sung almost wherever Enghsh is spoken. A 
lady from South America who loved the song, brought 
it with her to the very church to which it referred, 
without knowing it. The church has been pictured in 
magazines, and written up for various periodicals. The 
railroad spoiled the town, but a society keeps the church 
in repair as a landmark of history. 

The mother of my children dying of pneumonia, I m 
(2) Abi L., dau. of the Rev. E. T. Preston, of Baxter, 
Iowa. She had studied medicine for missionary pur- 
poses. Some delay occurring after her acceptance by 
the Board, she practiced for some time very successfully 
but was drawn into church work, and after a time, re- 
ceived license. She had two short pastorates before going 
as a missionary to Erzroom, Turkey. Over-work there 
after a time so injured her health that she was obliged 
to return. Recovering in part, she had been pastor of 
a small church three years, when we met. Since then, 
for nearly fourteen years, we have supplied two 
churches not far apart, usually for one small salary. 
We both delight to say ' ' a good word for Christ ' ' . 

This double work not sufficing, we have adopted 
four othei'w^se homeless children, one of whom is now 
at the Conservatory, having a voice. We have also a 
little farm, and are starting a grove of orange and 
grape-fruit, in provision for the time of age. 

She is also the practicing physician for the surround- 
ing country. 

I have written two small books, several serials, and 
very many poems and stories for various periodicals, 
besides the present work, most laborious of all. 

In my 77th year, I am still in the active ministry 
and in this my "fourth year with these churches, unani- 
mously asked to continue. 



136 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

XIX Children of f 66 Professor Rufus, (>, Wm. 5, 4, 
Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. 

g 85 Marcia Ann, i.siM. ni Rev. L. M. Glover, pastor 
at Lodi. Mich., and later till retirement, at Jacksonville, 
111. Received D. D. from Western Reserve Coll., his 
Alma Mater. 

g 86 Rufus, lN2:i. Grad W. R. Coll. and Theol. 
Sem. Pastor at Ravenna, O. Prof, of Greek and Latin, 
Illinois Coll.. Jacksonville, 111., till 1868. Resigned, 
and went into insurance and real-estate, Indianapolis. 
Later, professor in Blackburn University, Carlinville, 
111. Two years pastor of a Pres. Ch. in 111. Retired, 
at his home at Carlinville, where he d. 

A man of learning and polished manners, and an 
effective teacher, m Margaret L. Hunt of Detroit, who 
survives (PH)S). 

g 87 Timothy Dwight, lS2o. Grad. W. R. Coll. A 
musician. Une of ni)' early memories of him, is of 
his calling the Academy scholars together by playing 
an immense tin horn (I think about eight feet long) 
from the cupola of the building. He drew from it "the 
six tones", and played it like a bugle. Its size made 
the music audible to a great distance. I was sorry 
when a bell was procured. He could master any wind 
instrument in a few minutes. Excelled on the flute, 
and played any instrument in a l^and. Gave me some 
lessons upon the "ophecleide", the bass instrument 
then used in bands. He devoted himself to music, es- 
]jecially to the teaching of bands — to the organization 
of which the introduction of the sax-horn (now called 
comet) had given a great impetus. He taught in many 
parts of the west and south. After the Civil war he 
became professor of music at the Blind Asylum, Jack- 



SEVENTH GENERATION 137 

sonville, 111. He was accidentally killed, 1889. He m 
Marv Foote( ?) of Flint, Mich. 

g 88 John Rice, 1831. d in inf. 

g 89 Martha Egerton, 1833. m D. L. Wood. Settled 
at Indianapolis, Ind., in the insurance business. Res. 
817 N. Penn. This cousin, whom I knew at her father's 
home in Mich., when I was about fourteen — and whose 
influence was very beneficial to me, I met but once in 
our lives afterward, and then but for a brief interview, 
until in 1907, she visited us at our present home. It 
was pleasant to renew the old acquaintance. Mr 
Wood died suddenly, in 1905. 

g 90 Rev William Jarvis Gregg, 1835 Grad. W. R. 
Coll. and Sem. and became pastor of a church in Mich, 
m Lucy Gale, of Peoria, 111. She and their little one d 
of small-pox at Springfield, 111., and he took the disease, 
going to his father's home before he became ill. He 
recovered, but what he had passed through produced 
a lifelong effect. Later he settled upon a farm in Miss- 
ouri, preaching as occasion offered, but not in charge of 
a church. He'd in 1879. 

He was my playmate and schoolmate while at his 
father's school, and was already, at twelve, a good 
Latin and Greek scholar. He was a great help to me, 
a beginner. Possibly his mind had been allowed to 
develop too rapidly. 

The Chamberlain Branch 

XX Children of f 67 Anna, m Jacob CHAMBER- 
LAIN 6, Wm. 5, 4, Jonathan 3 John 2, 1. 

g 91 Sarah Ann' 1830. Bom at Sharon Conn. 
Grad. Mt Holyoke 1852. m Joseph Scudder, (grad W. 
R. Coll and Sem. Or perhaps at Rutgers.) Son of 
the famous Dr. Scudder, missionary to India. Went 




JACOB CHAMBERLAIN, M.D., D.D., LL.D. 



THE CHAMBERLAIN BRANCH 139 

to India, Arcot Mission. His health failed, and they 
returned. He became Sec. of Am. and Foreign 
Christian Union, an Anti-Romanist Society. 

In 1865, being in New York, I visited them in Hobo- 
ken. Both seemed feeble. She d not very long after, 
of (I think) cancer of the stomach. He m again, but 
also d not many years later. Sarah was a very bright 
and rather fascinating woman. 

g 92 Emily. A beautiful girl — d of some mysterious 
malady, when in her twenties. 

g 93 Jane H. Usually called Jennie. A blooming 
and wholesome girl, the picture of health. Her death 
was peculiarly distressing to her family. Her sister 
Sarah had been attacked with typhoid at Mt. Holyoke, 
and their mother was with her there, the case being 
very critical. In her absence Jennie suddenly sickened, 
and in three or four days died, before the absent ones 
even knew that she was sick. The father went imme- 
diately to Mt. Holyoke. As soon as his wife saw him, 
she said ''Jennie is dead!" Sarah could not be inform- 
ed for some weeks. 

g 94 Rev. Jacob, M.D.,D.D.,LL.D. Born at Sharon, 
Conn., 1835. Graduated W. R. College and Rut- 
gers Theological Seminar}^; m Charlotte C. Birge, 
1859, and became a missionary of the (Dutch) Reformed 
Church in India. The marriage of his sister to a mis- 
sionary of that church doubtless led him to join it. 
His recent death, of paralysis, permits me to speak 
freely of his work. In boyhood when I knew him, his 
thought was all of obtaining wealth, for which he had 
the natural shrewdness. While in college a great 
change occurred. He now chose rather to work among 
the heathen. In addition to his theological preparation 
he studied medicine and surgery, with emphasis on the 
latter. He became a most skillful operator. 



140 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

« 

As a missionary, he soon developed unusual qualities. 
He made tours of exploration and evangelization in 
every direction, sometimes into native kingdoms never 
before visited by a missionary. At times he was 
threatened with violence, but his remarkable tact and 
courage always warded off the blow. Sometimes in 
danger from floods and from wild beasts, he always 
escaped, often in a wonderful way. More than once 
he was obliged to seek renewed health in this country 
or by travel. His visits to this country were perhaps 
as helpful to his work as the years he spent in India. 

The simple story of liis work is thrilling. His hun- 
dreds of successful surgical operations, his equal succes- 
ses as an evangelist, his uniform cheerfulness and 
faith, and with all the rest his ever present humor, go 
far to stamp him as a model missionary. Though by 
no means old — ^younger by some years than myself, 
his white hair and long white beard won for him every 
where the title of "The Venerable Jacob Chamberlain". 

Some years since he suffered from a partial stroke 
of paralysis. For a time his life was despaired of. But 
he rallied, and since that time had done a literary work 
which might well appal a man in full vigor. His task 
had been to prepare a large and complete Bible Dic- 
tionary, for the use of both Tamil and Telugu Chris- 
tians. He had written this great work in these two lan- 
guages, with both of which he was thoroughly familiar, 
and a large part of the work was complete and pub- 
lished. His hope was, to complete the task. The 
work when published will be accessible to 150 millions 
of ])eople. He also translated the whole Bible into 
Telugu. 

I le told us not long before his decease that he gained 
liis enthusiasm for missionary work, from his mother. 



THE CHAMBERLAIN BRANCH 141 

But his good father, as I personally know, was not 
behind in supporting her influence. Died of paralysis, 
1908. 

g 95 William Isaac, 1837. W. R. Coll. Became for 
a time an assistant professor. Then a teacher: Was 
principal of Shaw academy, Collamer. The death of 
his mother, and the feebleness of his aged father, made 
it necessary for him, as the only child left in this coun- 
try, to live at the old home at Hudson. 

The farm had been exhausted and incumbered in 
order to educate the children. But in a few years he 
had a field of wheat which stood six feet high (I know, 
for I walked into it, and measured average stalks) 
which by careful survey and measurement yielded 
within a few pounds of fifty bushels per acre — the field 
containing ten acres. 

Presently, the owner of the field was secretary of the 
State board of agriculture. In this capacity he 
developed the system of farmers' institutes, which 
ever since has covered the entire state with a network 
of conventions, all of which are addressed by experts 
in every branch of agriculture. Local talent is also 
brought out very successfully. 

In a few years Mr. Chamberlain had offered him the 
presidency of any one of several agricultural colleges. 
He accepted that of Iowa, which he held for some years. 
Then returning to Ohio, he became one of the editors 
of The Ohio Farmer, while making his farm a private 
Experiment farm, for the testing of the question, "How 
to make an Ohio farm compete successfully with the 
cheap lands and high fertility of the West". His 
annual reports of income and outgo on this naturally 
by no means unusuall}^ fertile farm have been conclus- 
ive and of great value. He does not know what I am 



142 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

writing, and so 1 may say that the more 1 think of the 
matter, the more I feel that it would be quite impossible 
to estimate too highh* the w^ork he has done for agri- 
culture, and especially for Ohio. Latest word is that he 
has accepted an Associate Editorship of The National 
Stockman and Farmer. 

He rece ved the degree of LL.D. from Rutgers and 
about the time he became president of Iowa Agr. Coll- 
ege. He is a pleasant and forcible speaker and writer; 
and has done a large amount of writing for his paper, 
and for the press in general. He m in 1803, Lucy 
Marshall. His home is still at Hudson, O. 

XXI Ch: of f 70 Cynthia PETERSON. 
g 95 a Cynthia. 

g 95 b Vienna, m .... Bacon, lived at Nashua, la. 

XXII Ch: of f 71 William (>, of Pomfret, Vt., brother 
of Abel below (Teacher and Sup't of Schools.) 

g 96 William W., M.D., Shawmut Ave, Boston. Has 
a son, William \V. I'r, also M. D. and a successful spe- 
cialist. 

XHI Ch: of f 72 Abe (>, o, William 4, Jonathan 3, 
John 2, 1. (Weathersheld line; m Mary Furber of N. H. 
ISl.")). 

g 97 Charles Allen. Settled, w^lien 21, at Macon, 
Georgia, where his life was spent, m Elizabeth Jane 
Merritt, of Ga, 1855. Became somewhat wealthy — 
owned large mills, which were used by the C. S. during 
the war, and destroyed bxtlie U.S. army during Sher- 
man's campaign. But was able to continue his business 
as a banker after the war. Was a member of the legisla- 
ture. A man of capacity, and highly esteemed. 

g 98 James Furber. Also came to Georgia, and 



SEVENTH GENERATION 143 

settled at Barnesville. m Eppie A. Holmes of Barnes- 
ville. d at Atlanta 1891. She d 1872. 

g 99 Mary. g 100 Eliza. g 101 Emily, g 102 
Annette. One returns notes that all except Annette 
grew up, "and all married twice". 

Starred Names, Seventh Generation 

XXIV Children of f 81 Jonathan 6/ of Danville, Vt., 
Eleazer 5, 4, 3, John 2, 1. 

g 103 John C. Pres. of 1st Nat'l Bank, Northfield 
Minn. This bank was attacked by the notorious 
Younger brothers, who killed the cashier, but were 
overpowered and captured. 

g 104 Jonathan Emerson, D. D. S. Lived at Spring 
Valley Minn., but removed to Denver, where he died. 

II Children of f 81 James, m Mary Ellen—. Pem- 
broke, N. Y. 

g 103a Mary Ellen, 1849. m (1) Daniel Long, 1868, 
(2) — Cook. Lives at Ok ahama City. 
g 103b James Clarence, 1852. m Stella Miller. 
g 103c Emma Florence, 1855. 

III Children of f 86 Vespasian 6, George Veraines 5, 
Captain David 4, of Waterloo, Quebec. m Harriet 
Peasely. 

g 105 Ella, d in inf. 

g 106 Charles Albert. K.C. Barrister, Waterloo, Que. 
m Elizabeth Haskell. 

g 107 James Peasley. m Claire Sinclair. Lived at 
Ottawa. In Government employ — chief clerk Dep't of 
Trade and Commerce, d of pneumonia, 1902. Three 
sons, Harold, Keith, and Bruce, 

g 108 Arthur Knowlton. Single, d 1901, at Fernie, 
British Columbia. 



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NUTTING GENEALOGY 



g 109 Mary Adelaide. Prof. Domestic Administra- 
tiun. Teachers' College, Columbia University, New 
York. Was grad. from Johns Hopkins Hospital 
Training School, 1894; Supt. of nurses and Princ. of 
Training School; Sec. of Supts. of Training Schools; 
Pres. Maryland Assoc, of Graduate Nurses; Member 




Mary Adelaide Nutting 

International Council of Nurses; Pres. Am. Federation 
of Nurses. On leaving Johns Hopkins, her alumnae 
honored her b\- jjrocuring a fine oil portrait, at the 
unveiling of wiiich (after she had sailed for Europe) 
many distinguished speakers bore testimony to her 
ability and faithfulness. The illustration is a copy of 
this portrait. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 145 

g 110 Harriet Armine, m Gilbert Gosling, of Ber- 
muda, who settled in St John's, Newfoundland. 

The father, Vespasian, recognized Groton as the 
head-quarters of the family, and the supposition of all 
is that the family records were lost in the removal to 
Canada. I feel fairly certain that Captain David is 
to be identified with David 4, son of Nathanie of Gro- 
ton. I shall continue inquiry, hoping to find certain 
proof. 

IV Children of f 89 John Warren 6, Moses of 
Reading, Vt. and Groton, 5, *4, 3, 2, 1. m Elvira S. 
Moore. Lived at Woodstock. 

g 111 John Carlos, m Emily Hewitt. Undertaker, 
Woodstock, Vt. Two brothers d in inf. 

V Children of f 91 Samuel Hutchinson 0, Ephraim 
of Reading and Groton 5, *4, 3, 2, 1. 

g 112 Julia Ella, 1853, m Orsemor Holden 1S7G. 
Living at Perkinsville Vt. 

g 113 Lizzie Emma, 1855, m Edmund A. Batchelder 
1873. 

VI Children of f 97 Luther of Mason N. H. 6, 
Oliver of Mason and Groton (e 71) 5, *4, 3, 2, 1. Oliver 
was perhaps the son of Jacob of Ayer. 

Luther m Ruth Adams. 

g 114 Moses Lewis, 1818, m Susan Carter. 

g 115 Hiram P. 1820, m (1) Hannah Weston, (2) 
Elizabeth Sanborn. 

g 116 Geo. Franklin, 1821, m Helen A. Bennett. 
Lives at Fitchburg. 

g 117 Edwin L. 1825, m Mary A. Annis. Lives at 
GreenviUe N. H. 

g 118 John Q. A., 1828, m Mary Damon. 

g 119 Mary Eliza, m Elbridge G. Stanley. 



140 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

g 120 Marshall H.. 1S32, m Theresa Merrill. 
g 121 Leander J., LS.'U. m Almira Whittaker. 
g 122 Ferdinand L.. 1835, m Jennie Sargent. 
g 123 Romanzo L. m Martha Woodbury. 

\'ll Children of f 100 Abiel Abbott 0, brother of 
Lulher, above. 

g 124 Angelina. 

g 125 Charles Henry, ni Charlotte L. Lobdell of 
Filchburg. He was a carpenter and builder, resided at 
New Ipswich, N. H. 

VIII Children of f 101 Phineas, brother of Luther 
above, m (1) — ,(2) Sophia Osgood. By first marriage 

g 126 Phineas. g 127 Simon, g 128 James, g 129 
Joel, g 130 William Stewart, g 131 Susan, m Johnson. 

Bv second marriage: 
■g 132 Sophia, g 133 Silas. 

IX Children of f 102 Addison E. youngest brother 
of Lulher al)Ove. 

g 134 Frances M. bS37, m Sam'l Leatherwood. Live 
at Vinclarid, \. J. 

g 135 Willis A., 1.S3S. m Polly Ann Dixon. Both d. 

g 136 George E., 1S44. m (1) Addie L. Tenney, (2) 
1S44, Addle B. Chase. Lives at Waltham. Manu- 
facturer of steam rock-drills, in partnership with 
Josej)h Gothens. in New York. This drill was a novel- 
ty in the mining world, and i)roved very successful. 
It was used for the tunnels of the Hudson River R. R. 
and in the removal of the rocks at Hell-Gate, providing 
safe ]jassage for large sea-going vessels. The invention 
was Mr. Nffcting's. Ill health led him to remove to 
Waltham, where with his l)rother Granvelle he engaged 




GEORGE E. NUTTING 



148 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

in the manufacture of watch machinery. This led to 
the estabhshment of the United States Watch Corn- 
pan \'. 

g'l37 Warren Asher. 1848, m Mary M. Hammond. 
Li\'es in H< "Ston. 

g 138 Harrie E.. 1849. d in inf. 

g 139 Granvelle. 1S51, m Eva Gushing. Lives in 
jersev Citv, N. J. 

g 140 Lizzie. 1855, m Oren Wiswall, Marlboro, N. H. 

Two returns from this family give Jacob of Ayer as 
the father of Addison E,, who m Mary C. Loveland. 
He was the son of Oliver of Mason, not of Jacob. But 
there is usually a reason for such a mistake. I have 
thought it quite possible that Oliver, whose ancestry 
we have not traced, ma}' have been the son of Jacob of 
Ayer, and that the earlier name thus became confused 
with the later. All the other returns give Oliver as the 
father of Addison E. 

X Children of f 103 Joshua, JafTrey, N. H. 
g 140a John. 

B 

Descendants of James 2 

I. Children of f 114 William G, Capt. John of Pep- 
perell and Bunker Hill 5, Josiah 4, James 3, 2, John 1. 
m Betsv Brown. 

g 14i Philip B. 170S. g 142 Lydia, 1801. g 143 
Elizabeth, isoii. g 144 William G., 1805. g 145 
Lucius Bowles, 1807. m TrvphenaOrcutt, 1834. g 146 
Martha, bsou. 

All born at Salem. As Salem is very near to Beverly, 
it is quite possible that Marcus of Beverly was the son 
of one of these. His mother's name was Tirzah. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 149 

The fact that her name alone was retained, suggests 
that his father may have d while Marcus was an infant 
— his mother surviving until he was able to remember. 
I have been able to trace no other line of descent 
from Capt. John or his brother Josiah, nor any line of 
the Norridgewock colony. (Later: The father of 
Marcus was Nathan.) 

C 

Descendants of Ebenezer 2 

I Ch: of f 124 Thomas Banister 6, Jonathan 5, 4, 
3 (of Palmer), Eben 2, John 1. m Marcia White. Onlv 
child. 

g 147 Thomas Banister, b at Massillon, O., 1853. m 
Nina Moore, who lives at Montclair, N. J. Mr N. is a 
very proficient Bible-teacher, and is persuaded that he 
is called to help and instruct the patients at the asylum, 
in which he is both useful and happy. 

II Ch: of f 128 Isaac F. 6, Jonathan 5, etc. 
g 148 Ella J., Mills Seminary, Oakland Cal. 

III Children of f 129 Merrick 6, Ebenezer 5, Jona- 
than 4, 3, Ebenezer 2, John 1. 

g 149 Edwin M g 150 Jerome. g 151 Elvira, 
g 152 Eugene, g 153 Hubert, g 154 Lucien. g 155 
Cassius M. g 156 Hudson D. 

Jerome was killed in front of Richmond, after three 
years service. Hubert and Lucien also served three 
years. Cassius d 1880. (Information from Hudson 
D., youngest of the family. At that time he was a 
mail agent on the Erie R. R. I have not been able to 
communicate with him lately.) 

IV Children of f 130 Mary, sister of above, m 
Samuel KINGSBURY. 



i:,0 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

g 157 A Daughter, Mrs. George Sadd, of Geneva 
Ohio. She had one son. All are now deceased, and so 
far as I know, the line is extinct. 

\^ Child of f 134 Abner, Itrother of above, m Lucy 
A. iM-ost, (Now Mrs Ware, of Enfield Mass.) 

g 158 Mary Josephine. 1863. m Charles vS. Davis, 
ISSl. Enheld Mass. 

VI Children of f 138 Julius (), of Corry Pa. James 
."), 4, Jonathan 3, Elien. 2, John 1. • 

g 159 Byron, settled at Oil City, g 160 James, 
g 161 Sophronia. 

VII Children of f 139 Dwight, l)rother of Julius, m 
Juliette Partridge. 

g 162 Alonzo, m Harriet Hopkinson. d 1894. (Left 
dau. Ada, Inez.) 

VIII Ch: of f 140 Calvin Ward, brother of above. 
ni Mary, dau Jos and Sarah Poland. Settled at N. 
Brookheld, where he was for thirty-five years a beloved 
Deacnn of the Cong. Ch. 

g 163 Caroline Lucinda. 1850. m Albert Willington 
Ingraham. 1SS2. The\- live at Worcester Mass. We 
are mainly indebted to Mrs Ingraham for definite 
knowledge of the Brimfield, Leverett, and Palmer 
groups. 

IX Children of f 142 Cornelia, sister of Julius, m 
(1) Calvin SHAW, (2) Elijah Clifford. 

g 164 Nellie C. m J. Blair, g 165 Frank. 

X Ch: of f 143 Sarah Ward, sister above, m Wni. 
L. POWERS. 

g 166 Angle C. g 167 Maud N. g 168 May W. 

(twins.) 

XI Cli: of f 153 Lucius, of Leverett, Mass. and De- 



SEVENTH GENERATION 151 

catur, Mich., Ebenezer (e 49), David (d 38), Jonathan 
(c 13), Ebenezer (b 5), John (a 1). m EHza Backus, 
New York City. 

g 169 Cynthia Sophia, 1832, m Lyman Rawson, 
1852. d 1885. 

g 170 James W., 1834. m Ellen F. Warner, 1864. 
d 1890. 

g 171, by 2d marriage, Adelina Matilda, 1836. m Dr 
Chas. F. Baker, 1858. 

g 172 Lois Anna, 1840. m Ezra Dane, '59. . 

g 173 Martha Jane, 1843. 

g 174 Helen Louisa, 1845. m Thomas A. Burke, 1869. 

g 175 Lucy Bryant, 1848. m James Bell, 1871. 
d 1896. 

This Return had David of Leverett labeled "of 
Plymouth, Mass." and it seemed that here we might 
have one independent family. The error however, 
was shown by the list of names attached, which are 
those of the Leverett line, founded by David of Lever- 
ett. In certain deeds recorded at Brimfield or Spring- 
field, Jonathan 3 is said to be "of Plymouth, Conn." 
He seems to have lived there for a time before coming 
to Brimfield. 

XII Ch: of f 154 Bryant 6, Ebenezer 5, David 4, 
Jona. 3, Eben. 2, John 1. m Matilda Belding, Hatfield. 

g 176 Lucy, g 177 Julia. 

g 178 Lucius. Went in youth to 111. and reached 
his junior year at Knox. Studied medicine and rece- 
ived the M^ D. from Rush Med. Coll., Chicago. Went 
to Cal. in 1850, but returned ill, and "without much 
gold". Lived in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas, where his 
children were bom. Settled finally at Bozeman, Mon- 
tana; where he d. 



152 XUTTLNG GENEALOGY 

Is spoken of as a man who gave so liberally accord- 
ing to his means, that his wealth accumulated mostly 
"where neither moth nor rust corrupt, nor thieves 
break thru nor steal", m Elizabeth Allison -of Penn. 

g 179 Harriet, g 180 George, 1832. m Mary Ly- 
man of Granby Mass., where he settled as a farmer. 

(Asa. Harrison, Alden, and Ransom, all of the sixth 
generation, furnish no report.) 

XIII Children of f 159 Porter of Northampton G, 
Jo'hn 5, Eben. 4, 3, 2, John 1. 

By his first marriage, 

g 181 John. Lived at Shelburne Falls. 

By second marriage, 

g'l82 Mrs J. F. Spring (I have not the name). 
LiviniL^f at Los Angeles. 

g 183 Samuel H., of Warehouse Point, Conn. 

By third marriage, 

g 184 Hon Arthur F., Rep. in Legislature (1893). 

Bv fourth marriage, 

g"l85 Alice Gertrude, 1867. m Fred A. Smith, of 
Holyoke. They have one child, Marion. 

g 186 Grace Anna, d in inf. 

g 187 Charles Herbert, 1873. m Jennie Maria Nettle- 
Ion, of Derbv, Conn, 1899. Two sons; Wells Porter 
1904, and Wi'lliam Henry, 1906. 

g 188 Clifford Porter Northampton, 1882. Sup- 
posed to be "the youngest son of the Revolution". 

Most of my information as to this line is from 
Charles HerV)ert, who is a business man in Boston, 
Firm of Nutting and Wells. 

XIV Ch: of f 160 David (i. Porter 5, David 4, Jona. 
3, Fl)en. 2, Jolm 1. Lived at Indianola, Iowa, m 
Ljuisa Clark. 2d, Marv Fitts. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 153 



g 189 William Porter, m Katherine McLennan, of 
Lacona, Iowa. Lives at Milo, Iowa. Farmer, with 
speciality of fine stock-raising. 

(I learned of this family from a minister here in Fla.,- 
who had once preached at Milo.) 
g 190 g 191 Sadie L. 

XV Ch: of f 170 Charles 6, Cheney 5, David 4, 
Jona. 3, Eben. 2. John 1. Leverett. 

g 192 Charles M., Lives at Amherst, g 193 Mary, 
g 194 Eva. 

XVI Ch: of f 171 George of So. Amherst 6, John of 
Northampton 5, Eben. 4, 3, 2, John 1. m Judith Has- 
tings. 

g 195 Eli. Settled at Kent, Ohio, where I made his 
acquaintance in 1875. 

g 196 Juliana, 1813. m Mosely J. Kendall. 

g 197 Judith, m Aaron Ferry, 1814. 

g 198 John Hastings. Settled at Springfield Mass. 
1818, m Harriet d 18S7. 

g 199 Mary, 1820. g 200 Maria, 1822. g 201 Han- 
nah H., 1824. g 202 Harriet E., 1826. g 203 Nancy E., 
1830. 

(A Nancy Nutting was in business in Boston about 
1855 and removed to Richmond, Indiana, where she is 
reported to have had a niece of the same name. Ac- 
cording to my informant the elder Nancy died, and the 
younger removed to Cal. where .she married, and was 
supposed to be wealthy. I have no means of deciding 
whether the elder Nancy may have been Nancy, dau 
of George.) ■ 

XVII Ch: of f 172 Rev Ebenezer 6, bro. of George 
above, m Emily Kneeland. 



134 XUTTIXG GENEALOGY 

g 202a Porter, m . g 202b Clarissa, g 202c 

Emily, g 202d Freeman, g 202e George, m . 

X\'lll Children of f 174 Truman, half brother of 
George, by Catherine, 2d wife of John 5. m (1) — , (2) 
Marv Nuttincj. 

g '204 Louisa, g 205 Henry, g 206 Alonzo. g 207 
Frank, m (1) Sarah Brown, (2) Jane Reed. 

g 208 John, g 209 Sidney, m (1) Etna King, (2) 
Xanc\' Connor, Elgin, 111. 

g 210 Elijah C. m Emerette Pomroy. Lives at Fari- 
bault, infr of floor-trucks — a large business. 

g 211 Warren, g 212 Truman, jr. m Jane Weaver. 

g 213 tlau, d in infanc)-. 

Mrs. Louise C, widow of Alonzo above, sends this 
pleasant picture of the home life in Truman's family. 

"There were eight sons, and one daughter. Several 
of the sons played different instruments, and the father 
himself played the violin. Alonzo, my husband, sang 
until his voice failed, then he purchased a very fine old 
violin — over two hundred years old, which he played, 
and I sang alto." 

Little touches like this bring our clanspeople before 
us as living persons, and not mere names. Many years 
since, being in Illinois, a stranger hearing my name 
asked, — "Are you any relation to the Mr. Nutting who 
is such an organ-player for us at Elgin ?" 

"My brother died in Elgin", I replied, "but he was 
not a musician. Possibly it might be his son." 

"His name is Sidne}' — he is foreman, or manager, or 
something, at the watch-factory. I hear that he has 
been sent for to establish other watch-factories also — ■ 
one at Centralia, I believe. Anyhow, wlien it is known 
that he is to play for us, the house is always crowded." 

The organist was Sidney, son of Truman. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 155 

XIX Ch: of f 176 Rev Freeman bro. of Truman 
above, m Mary Spencer. 

g 213a Mary, g 213b Eliza, g 213c Ellen. g213d Eva. 

XX Ch: of f 178 Leonard, M. D., brother of Truman 
above, m (1) Martha Dickinson, (2) Mary Foster, (3) 
Luthera Winter. 

By 1st wife g 213e Maynard. 

By 2d wife g 213f Mary, m . g 213g Clara. 

g 213h Edith, g 213i Julia, g 213k Winter, m . 

XXI Ch: of f 180 Emerson, bro. of Truman above, 
m Harriet Nash. 

g 2131 Harriet, g 213m Harrison, both d young. 

The Ebenezer lines at Westford 

XXII Ch: of f 183 Samuel Sanger, 6, Buckley 
Prescott 5, Rev. Thomas 4, John 3, Ebenezer 2, John 
1. m (1) Eliza Clough, (2) Eliza Fitch. 

g 214 Zelina Helen 1841. m Harrison W. Fitch, 
1858. 

g 215 Mary Eliza, 1844. A teacher in the Boston 
schools, and proof-reader and translator for Littell's 
Living Age. Wrote also for magazines and periodicals. 
She undertook a Nutting Genealogy, and her researches, 
which are embodied in this volume, were very essential 
to its completeness. It is wholly due to her that we 
are able to include the lines which went to Nova Scotia, 
and through them incidentally, the line of Captain 
David of Waterloo, Quebec. Also she cleared up many 
points before obscure concerning the Ebenezer Branch 
and the Jonathan Branch generally. Her illness and 
death prevented her completing the work, but her re- 
sults are all preserved. We owe very much to her pa- 
tient and wise effort. 



156 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

g 216 Franklin Pierce. 1S49. d in inf. 

g 217 Franklin Pierce, ISol. m Hannali Amanda 
McGraw, 1S7S. 

Is a printer. Resides at Seatt'e, Washington. It has 
been a great pleasure to find this brother of my most 
efficient coadjutor, who had passed away without ever 
mentioning any of her family. 

g 218 Lovilla Hannah, 1857. m Edwin Royal 
McGraw, 1U()7. 

g 219 (l)v 2d marriage) George Samuel, bSOO, m 
Katherme R. Wood. 1SS2. 

More Starred Names, 1th Generation 

I Children of f 186 Calvin G, Ephraim 5, 4, Daniel 
3. John 2. 1. 

g 213 Mary S., 1N38. m C. C. Thomas 1860. 

g 214 Belle S. m Richard Riseng. 

g 215 Julia E., 1S40. m John Campbell Langton 
18()3, lives in San Francisco. Furnished most of this 
information, quoting also her aunt, Caroline, from 
whom came the description of the Nutting Coat of 
Arms, in this volume (page 24). 

g 216 Calvin, 1S42. m Adelie Riley 1888. Lives at 
Berkley Cal. 

g 217 Clarence, m Rose 

g 218 Walter P. m Mary Hoffman. Lives in San 
Francisco. 

II Children of f 187 Jonathan 0, Jonathan 5, Eph- 
raim 4. Daniel 8, John 2, 1. 

Tliis JonatlKui 5 settled finally at Otisfield Me. 
g 219 Jonathan Parker 7. 

III Children of f 188 Hiram (e ()9), Abraham (d 65), 
Xathaniel (c 21), Nathaniel. 



SEVENTH GENERATION 157 

g 220 Mary Ann. m Albert G. G 11, 1854. 

g 221 William Washburn, m Mary J. Campbell, 
1858. Pres. Ch'cago Scales Co., Chicago. 

g 222 Sarah E., d 1858. g 223 Harriet M. m Geo. 
Crawford, 1859. 

g 224 Romelia L., d 1855. 

g 225 Stephen M. m Louise Cragin, 18G4. Remains 
at Westminister, Vt. A merchant (I think). 

IV Children of f 189 Nathaniel, brother of above. 

g 226 Charles. Settled on the old farm at West- 
minister, where his wife and a .married daughter still 
live (1907). 

g 227 Mary, m Rev A. B. Dascomb, a w^ell known 
Congregational minister. Her son, Rev Harry Nut- 
ting Dascomb is now (1908) pastor of the Cong. Ch. 
at Grinnell, Iowa. 

V Children of f 190 Joshua 6, of JafTrey, N. H. I 
have no certain trace of the origin of this Joshua. His 
descendants could easily ascertain, I think. 

g 228 Luke H.,(Jaffrev N. H.). m Marv Ann Upton. 
g 229 Mary Ann. g 230 Martha, g 231 Sarah, g 
232 Lucinda. "All deceased." 

VI Ch: of f 191 Albert of Bakersfield,Vt., who seems 
to have hved at Berkshire, Vt. This line is reported no 
further back, but I think might be traced to Groton or 
Westford. Miss Mary E., in her last letter, mentioned 
families at Berkshire and Whiting, Vt., whom I under- 
stood to be of the Westford-Groton stock. 

g 233 Albert Bakersfield (apparently named from 
the place of birth.) 

VII Ch: of f 192 Joseph, of Howard, R. I. m Pris- 
cillalHill. 



loS NUTTING GENEALOGY 

g 234 Rev. James Hill, long Chaplain of R. I. 
State-prison, and d in that office, m Fannie S. Herman. 

VIII Ch:off 193 Joseph Henry ()(Greenfield, Mass.). 
m Sarah Coleman. Ozias of Deerfield 5. Previous 
ancestry *. m Mehitable Pinks. 

g 235 Mary Elizabeth. Lives (1908) at New Haven, 
Conn. 

IX Children of f 194 "Samuel, of Conn." The only 
Samuel we have found in Conn, is he of Warehouse 
Point, who must be too recent. But we have been 
losing sight of Samuels, all along; and doubtless some 
one of these may have settled — or paused for a time — 
"in Conn." But a whole State is a large hunting- 
ground . 

g 236 John, settled at Onondaga Hill. N. Y. The 
colony in that region seems to have been connected 
with salt-making, and most of its families were of the 
stock of Nathaniel of Concord, Mass. Presumption 
favors the connection of this Samuel with that line. 

X Ch: of f 195 Abner, of Newburyport. Abner is 
a constantly recurring name in all branches of our clan, 
especially in that of Ebenezer 2. The E. G. speaks 
in a general way of descendants of Ebenezer being 
found in all the region of N. E. Mass., especially along 
the coast. This Return is from William A., of Louis- 
ville, Ky., who has never met a Nutting iit his life, and 
whose parents d in his infancy or very early. He 
remembers hearing that Abner 's brothers were in the 
fish-trade, and thinks some of them were "Captains 
Courage )us". 

g 237 William A. Louisville, Ky. 

XI Ch: of f 196 Eldad 0, David 5, of Hanover, 



SEVENTH GENERATION 159 

Mass. . . earlier ancestors unknown. I find no record 
at Hanover, but such an omission is not uncommon 
and simply signifies that the parties forgot to report 
themselves. 

g 238 Mary, 1S27. g 239 Loyal, 1828. g 240 Delia, 
d in inf. g 241 David, 1832. 

g 242 Andrew J., 1834. A prominent clothing 
merchant, formerly well-known in Chicago, now still 
more in evidence in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

I have had some pleasant correspondence with this 
clansman, who is well toward the top in his mercantile 
business and standing. Some years since he was a 
lover of fine horses, and drove a premium matched 
team, of which — w^ith himself as driver — he sent me a 
beautiful photograph. 

g 243 Delia G. 1836. Still living. 

g 244 William Henry Harrison, 1840. Born at 
Johnstown, N. Y. d at Brooklyn, 1889. 

g 245 George Washington, 1841. d 1875. 

XII Children of f 197 Edwin A. 6. m Sarah Shaw. 
Earlier ancestrv unascertained. 

g 246 William B., Canton, Mass. m Lillior Temple 
Dowling, whose father was b in England. 

g 247 George, g 248 Hattie. g 249 Lucy, g 250 
Annie, g 251 Robert, g 252 Mary, g 253 Sarah. 

XIII Chi'dren of f 198 Marcus of Beverly, 6, Na- 
than 5, m Tirzah Thought to have descended 

from Captain John of Bunker Hill, but not yet made 
clear. He went to New York about 1835, and became 
a Captain of Passenger-steamers on North River, m 
Louisa Walsh. Wedding in Trinity Church, 1836. 

g 254 Lee, 1836. m Arietta Duryea, 1874. Served 
from 1861 to 1864, in 61st N. Y. Reg't, (Col. Nelson A. 



100 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Miles, now General Miles). Was Captain of the third 
company, and temporarily in command of the Regiment 
when a certain noted charge was made, for which he 
received the thanks of Congress, and a medal for 
gallant r\' in action. Shot through the lung, next the 
heart. His men hailed him "Colonel", and he bore 
the title the rest of his life, though he disowned it. He 
was in business- in New York, but also President of the 
Leipsigate Gold-mining Co. one of the companies which 
make up the Micmac, near Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. 
Notice in a N. S. paper of the death of Mrs Nutting in 
a run-away accident, first called my attention to this 
family. A few days since the same paper recorded the 
death of Col. Nutting himself, of heart-failure. I had 
much enjoyed the correspondence with him, and was 
hoping to meet him. I feel a personal bereavement 
in his departure, and only wish it were in my power to 
comfort in any degree his family, now doubly afflicted. 

The paper which announces his death states that he 
had received the brevet title. He does not mention 
this in his letter. But he was Colonel by acclamation 
of his men, which is a far greater honor. 

g 255 Thomas W. d 1876. 

g 256 Nathan, M. D. Practiced for some years at 
Ml. W-nion, but retired, and is now living at Berklev, 
Cal. 

g 257 Louisa S. A widow, living with a daughter 
at ( '' »]i >viu]i ) S])rings. 

g 258 Marcus, partner and Manager with Col. Lee in 
his .\l'\v \i)vk business, and has now succeeded him. 

XIV Cli: off 199 John. 

g 259 Eunice, g 260 John, g 261 Stephen, g 262 



vSEVENTH GENERATION 161 

Mary T. g 263 Sarah B. g 264 Moses P. m Mary 
J. Corey. 

g 265 Joseph, g 266 George B. 

I think these are all the families reported whose 
connection with our earliest ancestor is not wholly 
clear. None of the Returns indicate any tradition of 
a separate origin. Most writers themselves refer to 
Groton as the head-quarters of the Clan, of w^hich they 
regard themselves, very justly, as members. 



The Eighth Generation 
A 

Descendants of John 2 

I. Ch: of g 1 Rev. William 7, of W. Monroe N. Y., 
Thomas G (supposed son of John 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.) 

h 1 James Depew. m Margaret Cook. Lawyer, 
Phoenix X. Y. 

h 2 John A. m Helen Philips. Carried on a barrel- 
factor}-, Syracuse, where he d. 

h 3 Emila, single. 

h 4 (Ijy 2d mar.) Harley W., a mute; educated at 
Gallaudet's school, m Mary. . . .Live at Ft. Scott, Kan. 

h 5 Hon. Newton W. commissioner of schools, 
county judge (Uswego), member of Congress two terms, 
and elected for the third, but d of cancer before congress 
convened. A prominent attorney of Oswego. Spoken 
of as a very affable and popular man, keen of wit and 
abounding in humor, m Cynthia Penfield. He 
d. in his 49th year, in 1888. (I discovered this line 
through a chance meeting with Judge Nutting on the 
part of Mr Caleb L. Nutting of Medford, Mass., who 
several years later — since the death of the judge — re- 
ported the interview to me.) 

h 6 Harmon D. A brilliant scholar, valedictorian 
in his class. Teacher, and later commissioner of 
schools. District att'y in Virginia, and elected State 
Senator; but returned to Parish, N. Y., ill, and soon d. 
m Helen Ryder. 

h 7 Sarah, m J. R. Letty. Lives at the old home of 
her father. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 163 

h 8 Lydia (my informant), m Warren C. Burgess. 
A chronic invalid, but fond of writing both prose and 
verse. Not always able to use the pen — her informa- 
tion was w^ritten down by Helen, a relative. 

II Ch: of g 7 Melitta, m Piatt MARTIN, Utica. 
h 9 Lora. 

III. Ch: of g 9 Newell 7, Peter 6, Jonathan 5, 
Ephraim 4, &c.(Otisfield, Maine.) m Deborah Scribner. 

h 10 Edward D., 1822. m Esther Godding. 

h 11 Samuel Grovenor, 1825, m Martha A. Hancock, 
1851. Lives at Litchfield, Me. 

h 13 Peter, 1828. m Amanda J. Allen, 1852. 

h 14 Rev. Josiah P., 1832. m(l) Elizabeth Ball, (2) 
Elinor Mansfield Lives in Washington D. C. 

h 15 Benjamin N., 1836. d 1843. 

h 16 Mary Alice, d in inf. 

IV. Ch: of g 10a Charles L. 7, Peter of Groton(f 15) 
6, Nathan of Otisfield 5, Ephraim 4, &c. m Susan 
Barber Snow, of Lunenburg Mass. 

h 17 Susan Elizabeth, 1853. m George Allen Stuart, 
1877. Lives at Ashland Mass. 

h 18 Charles P., m Miss Willington. 

I have no record of ch: of Benj. Franklin, or Mary. 
(m Joseph Fitch and has desc. at Mason City, Iowa. 
These were brother and sister of Chas. L. above.) 

V Ch: of g 18 Daniel 7, Ralph 6, Daniel 5, 4, 3, 
John 2, 1. d 1879. m Elizabeth Burch, of Schaghticoke, 
N. Y. Lived at Easton, N. Y. d 1901 

h 19 Emily Jane, 1835. m David Burch, Scott Co., 
Iowa, d 1861. 

h 20 Daniel Webster, 1838. m Ellen M. Gray, d 1907. 

h 22 Eliza Maria, 1840. m John Carver, Scott Co., la. 



164 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

h 23 James Ralph, 1842. m (1) Ida Hosford, 1809, 
(2) Martha Farr, 18S9. Resides at Davenport Iowa. 
Leading partner in the Sickles, Preston, and Nutting 
Hardware Co. "with office also in New York." Has 
been president of the National Hardware Assoc, 
before which he delivered an address of such ability 
that it was used as an economical classic in various 
])eriodicals. In it he shows that Hardware is the prin- 
cipal and essential thing in civilization. He has been 
a regular contributor to "The Iron Age", Hardware", 
and "The Hardware Dealer's Magazine". As a mem- 
ber of Staff under Governor Drake, he received the 
title of Colonel, by which he has since been known. 
His country home at Nutting Farms, is a station on 
two railways, and he there dispenses a delightful 
hosi)itality. It has been well said of him, "He has 
made a success which has left no stings, sorrows, or 
heart-aches. In his advancement he has helped others 
to advance. He has never builded on another's ruin, 
but with a hand to help the weak, and smiles and cheer 
f(jr the discouraged, he has added his share to the sum 
of human happiness." He formerly issued some 
account of our family, but I have not seen it. From 
slight acf|uaintance through correspondence, and from 
the hearty, kindly look of his countenance, I feel sure 
that a closer acquaintance would be worth while. Mr. 
.\. is not responsible for what I have written, which has 
been taken from various published sources. 

h 24 Mary Gerlina. 1844. m Enoch L. Royce, Powe- 
sliiek cniinly, la. 

h 25 George Lucius, 1849. m S. M. Antonette Royce, 
Powcsliick county, Iowa, d 1907. 

h 26 Lorenzo Howard, 1855. m Delsma N. Falkin- 
burg. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 165 

VI Ch: of g 32 Stephen 7, Luther (New Haven, 
Vt.)6, Daniel 5 (Westford), Daniel 4, 3, John 2, 1. m 
Mary Jenette Palmer. 

h'28 Caleb L. 1859. m Effie B. Bissell, 1889. Has 
one son, Harold B., 1890. Lives at Medford, Mass. 

Vn Ch: of g 43 Benjamin Franklin 7, Asia 6, 
Daniel 5, 4, 3, John 2, 1. Westford. m Josephine 
Nichols. 

h 29 Elmer E. A machinist. 

h 30 Amy Belle (Mrs George F. Irish). Mr Irish is 
a pattern-maker. Benjamin F. was a, skilled stone- 
cutter. Mrs Irish has been my faithful helper in the 
present work, with the advantage of living on the 
spot once owned and occupied by our Founder (see 
page 95) . She has procured nearly all the views from 
Westford and Groton which we use in this volume. 
We owe her very much. She appears to be not doubt- 
fully one of our race; she has the characteristic energy 
and versatility. See portraits, pages 52, 122. 

VIII Ch: of g 48 William, m Susan Foye. 

h 31 John Day, m(l) Sarah E. Pratt, (2) Anna T. 
Bartlett. 

h 32 Abel (8). m Elizabeth White. . 

h 33 Walter Edward Hawes. m Susan R. Stoddard, 
of Quincy, Mass, where he lives. 

h 34 Charles Augustus, m Isadore Parsons. 

h 35 Joshua Hanson, m Arvilda M. Baftlett. 

h 36 Eunice Adelaide, m Henry F. Gray. Ch : a 
son and dau. both d in inf. m (2) Bryant N. Adams. 

Three infant children of William above, d at Lowell. 

IX Ch: of g 49 Albion 7, Seth 6, Abel ("The 
musketeer") 5, Daniel 4, 3, John 2, 1. m....Fifield, 
of Maine. Albion was an inventor, and sewing-ma- 




REV. WALLACE W. NUTTING, D. D. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 167 

chine mfr. He died in the service, early in the Civil 
War. His son 

h 37 Rev Wallace W.,D. D., b. at Rock Bottom, 
Mass, 1861, graduated from Augusta (Me.) high school, 
Philips-Exeter academy, Harvard college, Hartford and 
Union seminary. Pastor at Newark, N. J. Ordained 
pastor Park Ch., St. Paul, Minn. ; pastor Plymouth Ch., 
Seattle. Received his degree from Whitman College. 
Called to Union Ch., Providence R. I., where he served 
ten years. Health failing, was ordered to an out-door 
life, and made an occupation of art-photography, in 
which he was already expert. Soon achieved as wide 
a repute in art, as before in the pulpit (which is saying 
much). His work grew to a great business, requiring 
a company for its management. He bought a 400- 
acre tract on the Pomperaug, near Southbury, Conn., 
and made it into "A Photographer's Farm". He 
rebuilt an ancient mill for sawing and grinding, modern- 
ized the old dw^elling (part of which is two centuries 
old), and added an immense new barn, which shelters 
two hundred cows, "selected with a view to photogra- 
phy — and milk". Calls the place Nuttinghame (see 
ill. page 168), and has incorporated the Nuttinghame 
Co. to run the art business. He married, 1888, Mariet 
Griswold Caswell. Has been abroad several times. 

I had the pleasure of hearing him preach several 
years since, and of some slight acquaintance. We have 
also corresponded occasionally for many years. I 
hope for further acquaintance. 

X Ch: of g 51 Charles P., of New Ipswich, 7, 
Ezekiel 6, 5, 4, Daniel 3, John 2, 1. m Sally J. Manly. 

h 38 Lillie J. m Frank M. Dow. Lives at Paugus, 
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h 39 Izzie May, 1868, d 1879. 

h 40 Gertrude M., 1869, d 1886. 

h 41 Geo. F., 1872. h 42 Maud A., 187.]. h 43 
Wallace S., 1874. h 44 Minnie C, 187(). h 45 Lewis, 
1877. 

XI Ch: of George W. 7, Henry of Groton 6, Ephraim 
5, 4, Daniel 3, John 2, 1. m Georgia JoUimore. (Henry 
m Marinda Bryant.) 

h 46 Frank Herbert, Boston. 

XII Ch: of g 56 William 7 (Organ-builder, Bellows 
Falls), William 6, 5, 4, Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. m Mary 
A. Bradshaw. 

h 47 Lucy Maria. Lives at Bellows Falls. 
h 47a George W. Bridgeport, Conn. 

Xlla Ch: of g 57 Sarah Maria, m Rev S. A. Benton 
h 47b Samuel N. d at 18. 

XIII. Ch: of g 58 Charles, Esq., settled at Ran- 
dolph, Wis., brother of William above, m Cordelia 
A. Gilman. 

I well remember Miss Gilman, having been an inmate 
of the home of William 6, during the courtship of 
Charles and Cordelia. Eleven children were given to 
this union, and their mother was a bus}^ woman. "She 
has been seen nursing one bab}^ knitting a stocking for 
another, and teaching still others history from a great 
book propped before her on the table." I fear there is 
some connection between this strenuous life and what 
follows; "After years of ill health, she died at fifty-two." 
Children, 

h 48 Charles Albert, 1847. Read fluently, and 
spelled the longest words, at five. But survived, and 
went into business. Has a big machine-shop, Ran- 



170 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

dolph. Wis. m (1) Elizabeth Bryant, (2) Josephine 
Bryant. 

h 49 Anna Cordelia, d in inf. 

h 50 Samuel Edward, 1S51. An inventor. Made 
a working steam-engine before he was 15; later, a self- 
binding reaper, &c. At the world's fair, Chicago, 
exhibited a regulator for arc-lights, which took first 
premium. Is now in the red-wood lumber business, in 
the forests of Cal. m (1) Henrietta Shepard, (2) Clara 
Louise Hooker. Now at Healdsburg, Cal. 

h 51 William, 1853, d 1862. "Beautiful, bright, 
obedient child." 

h 52 Maria Gilman, 1855. (The informant.) I long 
ago learned how heroically she worked her way to a 
fine education at Rockford, 111., grad. in 1880. After 
teaching some years, she went in 1886 as a missionary 
of the Am. Board to Turkey. Had charge of girls 
boarding-school, and established and taught a kinder- 
garten of a hundred pupils. Associates broke down, 
and left still heavier work for her. Naturally she also 
broke down, and has never recovered, though much of 
the time active and useful. Now at Berkley, California. 
"Hoping for health and usefulness." Has written 
much for religious periodicals, and some books. 

h 53 Lilian, 1859. "Gifted,— charming". Grad. 
Normal ^School, became very popular teacher, m Geo. 
Castner, Loyal. Wis. Died 1895. 

h 54 Stella Cora, m James N. Bennett. Lives on 
his hiV'^c farm, Moscow, N. D. 

h 55 Harlan Payson Kingsbury, 1863. Engineer, 
Germania, Wis. m Edith Howard Richardson, of Ayer 
(Groton), Mass. 

h 56 Clarence Ernest Vincent, 1868. Member of a 
firm of mfg. jewelers, Minneapolis. 



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h 57 Clara Mabel Violet, 1870. Two years at 
Rockford; Nurse's training school, Cleveland; practiced 
at Austin, Minn, and there m William Henry Hopkins, 
Hannah, N. D. (Permanent case.) 

h 58 Perley Oilman Reed, 1873. In Gov't employ, 
Department of Standards, Washington, D.C. m E. E. 
Light foot. 

XIV Ch: of g 59 Rufus, Brother of Charles and 
William, above, m Sarah H. , dau. of Joseph D. of Groton. 

h 59 Sarah Maria, 1848, d in inf. 

h 60 William Rufus, 1850. Pres. American Vine- 
yard Co., Fresno, Cal. Immense vineyards of seedless 




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raisin grapes. oOO miles of trellis. Productiveness 
almost incredible. The necessary trays for drying, 
when stacked for storage, form a considerable building. 
Mr Nutting spends a part of the year in the east, dis- 
tributing, and taking orders for future delivery. He 
m Celia Frenvear, b Fairport, Vt., Nov. 10, 1849; d 
Berklev, Cal.^ Nov." 1. 1906. 

h 61 Rev. John Danforth, 1854, Wheaton Coll., 111.; 
Oljerlin Theol. Sem. Pastor Wauseon, O,, Newport, Ky. 
St. Louis, Mo.. Plymouth Ch., Salt Lake City. After 




Rev. John Danforth Nutting 

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Mission", and has now for some years been sending out 
\oung men, two by two, who go all through the regions 
occupied by Mormons, holding evangelistic meetings, 
visiting from house to house, and distributing literature. 
These missionaries receive only sufficient to cover their 
actual expenses. (This is necessary because the 
Momions themselves go out without salary.) They 
travel in large covered wagons, in which they live. 
The results are very encouraging. The aim is not so 
much to combat Momionism directly, as to preach a 
pure gospel, which if received will displace error. The 
missionaries are welcomed, and very often the Mormon 
halls and meeting-places are opened for their preaching. 

Mr Nutting m (1) Miss Nannie Keith Miller of 
Oberlin. who d about a year later, (2) Miss Lillis R. 
Morley, of Mentor, O. Their home is at Cleveland. O., 
but he is mostly occupied in the work, either in Utah or 
in arranging for means and men. Mrs Nutting is 
kindly acting as Treasurer for our rather informal 
Genealogical Association — as I did not wish to handle 
any money. She will render a careful account in due 
time. 

h 62 Albert. A farmer. 

h 63 Wallace. Taxidermist and photographer. Also 
at ])resent a Rural Mail Carrier, Benzonia, Mich. 

h 64 Ruth. A portrait artist. Studied in Europe 
several years, a year or two of which time she was art- 
and-English teacher in the family of the Regent of 
Bavaria, her special charge being the royal princesses. 
While so employed she met many of the royal person- 
ages of Europe, including the king and queen of 
Portugal, the ex-em])eror Don Pedro, and the emperor 
and empress of Austria — the latter being afterward 



EIGHTH GENERATION 175 

assassinated. She now has a studio at Wheaton, 111., 
and in winter in Chicago. 

h 65 Frederick. A canvasser and salesman. 

XV Ch: of g 60 Rev George Barrett, brother of 
William 7, &c. m (1) Sarah Elvira Hodges, (2) Susan 
Alice Hodges, of Geneva, N. Y. 

h 66, 67 infants, d un-named. 

h 68 William Whiteley, 1860. m Fanny Gregg, 
1901. A teacher in the schools of New York City. 
Res. Trinity Ave. 

h 69 Mary, h 70 Sarah, d in inf. 

h 71 Robert Boyd. 1S64. m Adah Elizabeth Worley. 

h 72 Henry Hodges, 1867. d at Black Mountain, 
N. C.,inl898. 

h 73 Susan Julia, 1869. A very lovely girl, and a 
close friend of my own Anna, although they only met 
once on earth. Susie d in Colorado in 1891. My Anna 
had preceded her, in 1889. 

h 74 Louis Blackstone, 1871. m Frances Castle 
Hodges, 1898. Res. at Pelham, N. Y. Engaged with 
his brother, Robert Boyd, in Electrical Engineering. 
Business House, 111 Broadway, New York City. 

h 75 Marcus David, d in inf. 

XVa Children of g 61 David Hubbard, 7, William, 
6, 5, 4, Jonathan, 3, John, 2, 1. 

h 75a Annie Hale, b in Diarbekir, 1858; d 1859. 

h 75b Nellie Hubbard, b in Bitlis, Turkey, 1860. 
A graduate of Chicopee High School, and took a 
special course in Wellesley College. A teacher for 
fifteen years in Montgomery, (Ala.) Industrial School. 
Now (1908) caring for her aged parents, Randolph 
Centre, Vt. 

h 75c Mary Howard, b in Harpoot, Turkey, 1862. 



176 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

A graduate from Mt. Holyoke College. Taught in New 
Jersey, Georgia and Utah several years. Now regis- 
tered graduate nurse residing in Hartford, Conn. (But 
spent the winter 1907-8 in Florida and visited The 
Compiler) . 

h 75d George Hale, 1> in Haverhill, Mass., 1867. 
m 1890, Hannah Maria Brown, of Haverhill. A 
business man. Boston. Clerk of Corporation of Dwight 
Mfg. Co., and Lyman Mlils; also executor and trustee 
of the J. Howard Nichols Estate; member of Sons of 
the American Revolution; Boston City Club; Highland 
Club of West Roxbury; and life member Bostonian 
Society. (Also one of the most helpful promoters 
of this work. The Compiler.) See picture of three 
generations, page 121, and of his wife and children, 
page opposite. 

h 75e Charles Henry, b in Aleppo, Turkey, 1868. 
m 189.3 Blanch Noyes, of Randolph, Vt. Superin- 
tendent Chicopee, Mass., Gas Light Co.; County Com- 
missioner of Hampden Co.; Commodore Springfield 
^'acht Club, etc., etc. 

h 75f Frederic Williams, b 1870 in Aleppo, m 1897 
Lillian Mason, of Lawrence, Mass. An accountant 
B. &M. R.R. 

The Patch Branch 

XVI Ch: of g 64 Anna (Patch) 7, Susanna 6, 
William 5.4, Jona. ;^, John 2, 1 m John WINN, Hudson, 
N. H. 

h 76 Sylvanus. 18:^7. Single. 

h 77 Sarah Ann, m Isaac Gould, Tyngsboro, Mass. 
(Ch: LMwin, Mabel, Anna May.) 

h 78 Mary A. h 79 Josephine, h 80 Rufus. 

h 81 Jacob N. d in inf. 




D OROTHY J3AKEETT NUTTlNCj-- 

IfeTHATNriBL Hubbard Nuttins. Hannah Maria Nutting-. 
(Mrs. GiicROE Hale Nuttiko. ) 



THE PATCH BRANCH 170 

h 82 Ellen M. h 83 Dau. d in inf. 

XVII Ch: of g 65 Lydia Patch 7, Susanna Nutting 
Patch, 6, &c. m Rev E. C. SHARP, Atwater, O. 

h 84 Susan Elizabeth, 1842. m Thos. Copeland. 
(Ch: Jenny; Bancroft, Mich.) 

h 85 Lavinia, 18-13-76. m Orrin Green. (Ch: Albert, 
Ella M.) 

XVIII Ch:ofg 66 Zara PATCH brother of above. 

m (1) Emily Childs (Mrs Fitch), (2) Mr Zara 

Patch is still living( 1908), and of surprising vigor for 
his age. He was b in 1812. See portrait pages 32, 125. 

h 86 William F., m Minnie Richardson. Is an 
expressman, Brattleboro, Vt. 

h 87 Geo F., Hardware merch't, Denver, Col. 

h 88 Sarah Jane, m Henry Whiting, Groton. A 
master builder. In charge of buildings of Groton 
School. 

h 89 Rufus Andrew. Wholesale fruit, Denver. 

XIX Ch: of g 67 Rev Jacob PATCH brother of 
above, b 1815. Lives at Stevens Point Wis. Still 
preaches occasionally. Oldest minister Pres. church 
in America, m Jane Bush, 1842, who also still survives. 
See portraits page 126. 

h 90 Allen, 1846, d 1866. 

h 91 George H. 1850. m Loretta Ramsey, 1875. 
An artist, Stevens Point, (ch: Mary N., 1876. Allen 
Jacob, 1878. Orrin Geo., 1879. Harry Marshall, 1882.) 

h 92 Jane Bush, 1852. Cares for her parents, 
Stevens Point. 

h 93 Frederic Ebenezer, 1855-72. 

h 94 Mary Helen, 1857. Grad. Mt. Holyoke. Trained 
nurse, Hartford, Conn. 



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h 95 Martha Ann. Grad. Western Sem., Oxford, O. 
m Dr. Daniel Campbell, Canfield, O. 

XX Ch:ofg 69 Rev. Pres. Rufus PATCH, brother 
of above, m (1, 1844), Sarah F. Brace, (2, 1846), Julia 
A. Upson, (3, 1872). Mary Arrouette Davis. 

h 96 Julia Brace, 1849, m Rev. G. A. McKinley, 
now (1907) at Spokane, Wash. 
h 97 Minnietta, d in inf. 

XXI Ch: of g 70 Mary Patch, sister of above, m 
1842, Pierpont EDWARDS, of Canfield, O., merchant. 

h 98 Albert, d young. 

h 99 Sarah, 1846. m Rev M. Jones, of Youngstown, 
O. 

h 100 George Rufus, 1849, d 1888. 

h 101 Lucy, m Dr. Daniel Campbell, 

h 102 Ellen. Lives at Canfield. 

h 103 Martin Luther, 1860. m 

The Bardeen Branch 

XXII Ch: of g 71 Susanna French, m Abel SAW- 
TELLE, dau Sarah Nutting Bardeen 6, William Nut- 
ting 5, Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. 

h 104 Stillman, m (1) J. Morgan, (2) . 

h 105 Sarah, m Constantine. 

h 106 Sophia, m Thomas Barrett, 

h 107 Mary, m Thomas Arnold, 

h 108 Susan, m Edwin L. Phinney. 

XXIII Ch: of g 72 Daniel Nelson BARDEEN, 
bro. of the above. He was a blacksmith, his shop 
near the bridge at Stoney-Wading-Place. (Hollings- 
worth's, I believe, now; see page 34.) There was much 
intercourse between my father's family and these near- 
Ijv cousins. 



THE BARDEEN BRANCH 183 

h 109 Casendana Sophia, 1832-46. 

h 110 Daniel, 1834. m L. Billings. 

h 111 Jane, 1835. m Souther (I met Mrs. S. in 

Groton in 1898. 

h 112 Sarah Maria, 1839. h 113 Sherman d voung. 
h 114 Mary. 

XXIV Ch: of g 72 Jane A., sister of the above, m 
Joel AMES, owner of a granite quarry on Mt. RoUstone, 
Fitchburg, Mass. 

h 115 Mary Jane, for many years a distinguished 
contralto singer, m George Raymond, a civil engineer. 
Both still living (1908). 

h 116 Sarah A. m Walter Eames, who while a ser- 
geant at the battle of Ball's Bluff saved the life of Gen. 
Devens, by swimming the river with him. After the 
war he was in the custom-house in Boston till he died, 
aged 63. 

XXV Ch: of g 73 William Thomas BARDEEN, 

brother of Daniel N. m Mary Ann Farnsworth. 

h 117 Charles William, b Aug. 28, 1847, at the old 
Nod farm (see p. 35). His parents soon removed to 
Fitchburg, where he attended the high school, but 
spent one summer at Randolph, Vt., with George 
French Nutting (p. 131) and attended the Orange County 
Grammar school there. In 1862 he enlisted at 14 in 
the 1st Mass. and was mustered out with the regiment 
in 1864, having served in the battles of Fredericksburg, 
Chancellors ville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and 
Spottsylvania. He spent a year at Lawrence academy, 
Groton, where his mother had been a student twenty 
years before, and his school experiences form one of the 
"My schools and schoolmasters" series in the Educa- 
tional Review (XXII: 228-239). After graduation 



184 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

from Yale in 18G9, he was vice-principal of the Conn, 
state nonnal school and superintendent of schools at 
Whitehall, N. Y. In 1874 he established The School 
BuUctin at Syracuse, of which he is still editor and 
publisher after 34 continuous years. In 1898 he was 
in charge of the department of educational publications 
at the International Congress, Chicago, and in 1900 he 
was elected j^resident of the Educational Press Asso- 
ciation of America. 

In 1875 he l)egan the publication of books on 
teaching, of which he has a far larger list than any 
other publisher in the world, numbering some 2,000 
volumes. More than fifty of these are of his own 
authorship, for list of the principal titles of which see 
"Who's Who in America". These books have received 
awards at all the great expositions, beginning with 
1878, including a gold medal at Paris, 1889, the medal 
and diploma at Chicago, 1893, and two gold medals 
at the Paris exposition of 1900. He has recently 
become also an extensive map publisher, and his 
"Peerless" series has been adopted for exclusive use 
in the rural schools of New York. 

He m 1868 Ellen Palmer Dickerman, New Haven, 
Conn., dau of Charles Dickerman (259 in "Families of 
Dickerman Ancestry", New Haven, 1897), and Jane 
F<jote Dickerman, (3241 in "Foote History and Gene- 
alogy", Rutland, 1907.) Their home is in Syracuse, 
N. Y. 

h 118 George Edward, 1850, m 1871 Abby Carder, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. His first responsible work was with 
the Kalamazoo Paper Co. (see g 73), of which he be- 
came secretary, but afterward he established the Bar- 
deen Paper Co. at Otsego, Mich., which has become the 
centre of a large group of paper mills. 




GEORGE EDWARD BARDEEN 



186 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

He is president of the Bardeen Paper Co., the 
Otsego Coated Paper Co., the Otsego Water Power 
Co., the Kalamazoo Playing Card Co., the Angle Street 
Sled Co., the Boyne City Lumber Co.; vice-president 
of the Lee Paper Co., the Vincennes Light and Power 
Co.; treasurer of the Otsego Coated Paper Co., 
the Mac Sim Bar Paper Co., the Babcock Tissue Paper 
Co., and the Paraffin Paper Co.; director of the Kala- 
mazoo City National Bank, the Kalamazoo Gas Light 
Co., the Kalamazoo Laundry Co., the Kalamazoo 
Stove Co., the Kalamazoo Lake Shore and Chicago 
R. R., the Otsego Creamery Co., the Detroit vStoker & 
Foundry Co., the South Haven Improvement Co., 
the South Haven Towing and Wrecking Co., the La 
Porte Gas Co., the General Gas Co., the Jackson Gas 
Light and Coke Co., the Pontiac Gas Light and Coke 
Co., the Wyoming Gas and Electric Co., the City of 
Flint Gas Light Co., the Saginaw-Bay City Railway 
and Light Co., the Springfield Railway and Light 
Co.. the Elbe Casket Mfg. Co., the Merchants Publishing 
Co., the Eady Stove Co., the Dennis Brother Salt and 
Lumber Co., the Emmett Lumber Co., the Dunkley 
Co., the Dunkley Williams Co. He has been for 14 
years chairman of the republican committee of the 
4th Congressional District, and has been for years 
on the republican State Central Committee. He was 
]3resident of the village for six years, member of the 
ijoard of control of the State public school at Cold- 
water, and is a member of the Otsego board of education. 

h 119 Mary Elizabeth, 1855, d. m Frank Carle, 
now chief editorial writer on The Minneapolis Tribune, 
and formerly editor of The Oregonian, and of The 
Commercial Advertiser, New York. 

h 120 Joseph Winship, d young. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 187 

The Bennett Branch 

XXVI Ch: of g 74 Lucinda, 7. m J. Kendall 
BENNETT of Groton, Joseph D. 6, Wilbam 5, 4, 
Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. 

h 121 Josiah Kendall, I83I. Groton Academy, 
Harvard coll. (junior year at Yale), Harvard law school. 
Att'y, Groton and Ayer; Judge 7th Northern District 
Court of Middlesex county, holding Court at Ayer. 
M Abbie, dau of Reuben Torrey of Groton. Lost his 
voice in 1873, but continued to hold his court till 
three days prior to his death, speaking in whisper, d of 
tuberculosis 1874. A man kind and just, with eminent 
judicial qualifications: seemed sure of promotion, of 
which he was nobly worthy. A year older than I, he 
was yet my nephew. .But his home was only a mile 
away, and in boyhood we were more like brothers. I 
met him last in 1873. He was aware of his condition, 
but brave and cheerful. I shall never forget the 
loving look with which he said at our parting, "We 
shall meet next, on the other side." 

h 122 EmilineC, d in inf. 

h 123 R. Emily. A woman of strong character, capa- 
ble and successful. Has been at the head of 'Homes' 
and other Institutions. Has handled some real-estate. 
Now lives at Edmond, Oklahoma. 

h 123a Rev. William Parmenter, 1836. Lawrence 
and Randolph Academies, Williams College. A 
teacher, m Harriet Irene Blodgett, of Randolph, Vt. 
Founded and taught Bradford academy, Iowa, which 
proved a great benefit to the new country. When 
high schools became numerous, I had the pleasure of 
turning his attention to the ministry. He became 
pastor for some years at Mason City. Then took a 



188 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

year at Andover, then in its glory. A short pastorate 
in Vermont, then called to Ames, Iowa, the seat of 
Iowa Ag. College. After a long pastorate removed to 
Crete, Neb., the seat of Doane college. He d there of 
pneumonia, in the twelfth year of his pastorate. High- 
ly esteemed, a man of wide influence in the State. 
With him also my relations were almost those of 
brotherhood. 

h 124 Joseph Sumner. With his brother George, 
below, he was in the blockading service during the 
Civil war. Later, won a homestead in Minnesota. 
Removed to St. Paul, and became a carpenter. Now 
lives at Osage, Iowa, m Rena, dau of Edward Smith, 
M. D., of Bradford Iowa. 

h 125 Sarah Maria. 1840. Single. A helper to 
many. Lives at Tyngsboro, near Grot on. Has been 
very helpful in the preparation of this work. 

h 126 John Danforth, d in inf. 

h 127 George Washington. Lawrence academy, 
Wilhams coll. Teacher for some years. Became editor 
of a County Paper at Osage, Iowa. Health impaired, 
went to St Paul, and came later to Florida, locating 
at Point Maximo, near St. Petersburg, Fla. (supposed 
landing-place of DeSoto's army). Has enjoyed a 
measure of .health liere for nearly thirty years. His 
home is on the Gulf coast. Of four ch: Paul, Bayne 
Cook, Harold Cook, and Faith, only Harold P. survives, 
b 1882. His mother is Mary Owsley Cook, of Charles 
City, Iowa. 

h 128 Jane Elizabeth, 1848. d suddenly of general 
paralysis, when about nineteen. A very lovely girl, 
of great promise. 

h 129 Samuel Trowbridge Champney, 1851. 

A skilUul master-builder. Has practiced his con- 



EIGHTH GENERATION 1S9 

structive art in many places, from Minn, to Florida. 
Now lives at Edmond, Oklahoma, m, 187G, Miss A. 
Josephine Plummer. 

XXVII Ch: of g 76 Hannah Maria 7, Jos. D., (>, 
etc. m (1) Rev N. Benham, (2) Dr I. N. KNAPP. 

h 130 Charles D., Com. traveler, (Finch, Vanslyck 
& Co., St. Paul.) later Department manager. Last 
heard from (indirectly) as representing that house at 
New York, m Mitchell, of Bradford, Iowa. 

One son, not heard from. 

h 131 Abba. Educated at Ft. Wayne, Ind. A 
teacher, m . .Nickerson of Minn, d young. 

h 132 Frank. Last heard from as a country mer- 
chant in Minn, m Has several children. 

I have not been able to obtain his address. 

XXVIII Ch: of g 81 Dr. Isaiah H., 7, Joseph D. (>, 
etc. m Almira A. Hooker, of Hinsdale, N. H., who sur- 
vived him many years. 

h 133 Frederic J., 1854. Technical school, Boston. 
A skilled machinist. Long in the employ of the Nat'l 
Cash Register Co., as an' inventor. Now has a large 
machine-shop at Dayton, 0., a speciality being the 
construction of machines for inventors, m Mary A 
Wheatley, of Ontario. (Ch: EvaW., 1875. A successful 
teacher at Columbus, 0., 1908. Minnie E., 1879. m 
John Clifford Cunningham; has one son, John, 1908.) 

h 134 Herbert 1856(?). Long employed at Smith 
& Wesson's, Springfield, Mass. Became a cattle- 
rancher in Arizona; later, ore-freighter, Chihuahua, 

Mexico, then a miner, m (1) ..... . and (2) (Ch: 

Walter and Alice by 1st marriage; Minnie by 2d 
marriage.) Now lives at Laton, Cal. 

h 135 Minnie, b at Dyersville, Iowa, 1861. Edu- 



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cated at Hinsdale N. H, and elsewhere, m Edward 
McGregor. Now living at E. Derry, N. H. 

XXIX Ch: of g 83 Daniel Chaplin 7, Joseph D. 6, 
etc. ni Ellen J. Murrell of Bowling Green, Ky., who 
survives. 

h 136 Claire, b Glasgow, Ky., 1855. m William 
Evans. Lives at Reserve, Kansas. 

h 137 Martha Elizabeth, 1859, m Robert Cornelison, 
merchant and lumber dealer, Reserve, Kas. 

h 138 Annie B, 1862, d in inf. (The funeral proces- 
sion for this babe, in Kentucky, was stopped on its way, 
for many hours, by the passing of a Union military 
force.) 

h 139 Ellen Luc inda (Lulu), 1863. m Walter Bates, 
now of EUensburg, Wash. 

h 140 Mary Eliza, 1866. m John F. Walker, Reserve, 
Kas. 

h 141 Daniel Chaplin, 1869, grad. Annapolis Naval 
Academy 1893, "with distinction", being 1st in the 
Engineer Division, and 3d in the entire class. During 
liis course he had held the highest Cadet offices possible 
in his division, and was recommended by the Academic 
Board for appointment in the Construction Corps. 
Assigned at grad. to the Chicago, Flag-ship of the 
White Squadron, the first squadron of steel vessels. 
Left the Chicago at Gibraltar, for assigned course of 
study (for the Construction Corps) at the University of 
Glasgow, Scotland. Course consisted mostly of Naval 
Architecture, Marine Engineering, and Electrical 
Engineering. His professor of Naval Architecture was 
Biles, designer of the best trans-Atlantic S. S. of the 
time; while the celebrated Lord Kelvin was his teacher 
for Electricity and Physics. He grad. at Glasgow at 




MAJOR DANIEL CHAPLIN NUTTING 



192 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

the head of his class, and returning home was commis- 
sioned Assistant Naval Constructor, with (army) rank 
of 1st Lieutenant. Spent three years as Assistant to 
the N. C. at Norfolk Navy Yard, repairing the hulls of 
many war-ships. The Spanish War brought immense 
additions to the work, twenty-seven vessels being 
there at one time, requiring a force of 1400 men. In 
'98 was detached and sent as Superintending Construc- 
tor for the Torpedo- Boat Destroyers Lawrence and 
McDonough, at the Fore River works, Braintree, Mass, 
and the Torpedo-Boats Blakely and DeLong, at So. 
Boston. Here he had three years of interesting work 
in an independent position. 

(I had the pleasure of visiting him while in this work, 
and went with him through the works, and examined the 
vessels. I approved the construction throughout, and 
they were not long after accepted and put in Comis- 
sion !) 

The works at Braintree then obtained contracts for 
the Cruiser Des Moines, and the Battle-ships New 
Jerse\' and Rhode Island. But changes in the Con- 
struction Corps caused him to be attached to the 
Brooklyn Navy Yard, the largest of all. Here he had 
general charge as Senior Assistant, of all repairs. All 
work on the Battle-ships was done there. The Indi- 
ana was remodeled under his supervision, and all the 
other Battle-ships were repaired more or less. 

In 1<)0() he was ordered to the Bureau of Construction 
and Repair, at the Navy Department, Washington. 
This Bureau has charge of designs for the hulls of all 
naval vessels, and their construction. Its expenditures 
are more than $25,000,000 per annum. 

By successive promotions, Mr Nutting is now a Naval 
Constructor, with the rank of (army) Major (1907). 



EIGHTH GENERATION J 93 

He m, 1897, Priscilla, dau. Rev. George Dew. (One 
child; Daniel Chaplin, 1900 ? date not given.) 

h 142 Samuel Joseph, b Kansas, 1871. A Real- 
Estate Dealer, at Dalhart, Texas ("Panhandle"), m, 
1907, Jessie Giberson Deering. (One child, 1908) 

h 143 George W. M., b. Kansas, 1881. Grad. 
Kansas University, Lawrence. In Real Estate with 
above, at Dalhart, Texas. One of my earliest helpers 
as to publication of this work. 

XXX Ch: of g 84 Rev. John K. 7, Joseph D. 0, etc. 
m. Celeste Eugenia Chandler, by whom 

h 144 Mary Winifred, d. in inf. 

h 145 Jessie Gulielma, 1864. A very successful 
teacher, now for several years in H. S. work. Five 
years Supt. of Schools at Glenwood, Iowa, after two 
years as Principal of H. S., 18 departments. Won the 
position through the unsought petition of her pupils 
and graduates, and of her fellow teachers, m Herbert L. 
Priest of Dakota, also a teacher, and both continue 
their work. Is now^ at the University, Seattle, and 
engaged for the year at Snohomish, near. Was 
educated at Michigan Normal School, and Oberlin 
College, and took a Master's Degree in Pedagogy at the 
Iowa Normal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

h 146 Anna Celeste, b 1871, at Glenwood, Iowa. A 
rare and gifted child, never giving us pain or anxiety. 
Unconsciously, and to her surprise, a leader among all 
companions. With little training, could influence an 
audience to tears or laughter by her simple recitations 
or songs. A natural artist. Had a voice of unusual 
richness and compass, and looked foi'ward to a Con- 
servatory Course the next year, — when she suddenly 
d of typhoid. Up to the very hour of her death, in her 



194 NUTTING GENEALOGY 




Anna Celeste Nutting 

deliriuni. she tilled the house with the strains of 
Mendelssohn and other masters, her last notes, an hour 
before the end, — "Oh rest in the Lord; wait patiently 
for Him; and He shall give thee the desires of thy 
heart!" (Mendelssohn) I am waiting — and it will not 
be long, now\ She d at eighteen, in the bloom and 
promise of her beautiful life. 

h 147 Nira Cecilia, d in inf. 

h 148 John Winthrop Chandler, 1879. Glenwood 
(Iowa) H. S., Engineering at Ames Ag. College. A 
locomotive engineer, now employed on the Louisville 
and Nashville, and living at Nashville, Tenn. m Mable 
Muttart, of Mason City, Iowa. (Ch: Norwood Chand- 
ler, 1901. 

No children have been bom of my second marriage. 
My wife had already adopted Grace Marie, who takes 
her name, (Preston). Three adopted since, are known 
as Oscar H., JuniaF.,and Charles W. Nutting. Grace 
Marie has just finished a successful year at Oberlin 
Conservatory. The others are going on with their 
education. 

XXXI Ch: of g 85 Marcia Ann Nutting (m L. M. 
GLOVER, D. D.) 7, Prof. Rufus Sr., G, William 5, 4, 
Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 195 

h 148 Mary, m Henry Mitchell. Both deceased. 

h 149 L. G., Kansas City, Kas. Has one son. 

h 150 Lyman Beecher, m Louisa Thompson, 1876. 
Is a business man, Chicago. 

h 151 Martha Nutting, m Ed. Higginson. 

h 152 Marcia. 

h 153 John Adams, m Clara L. Wood, dau. of D. L. 
Wood. Lives at Urbana,Ill. See Wood, below, XXXIV. 

h 154 William Brown. 

XXXII Ch: of g 86 Prof. Rufus Jr., 7, Rufus Sr. G, 
William 5, &c. 

h 155 Millicent, m George Dodd, Esq., now of 
Greenwood, Mo. 

h 156 Margaretta. 

h 157 Carrie. A successful teacher, in Utah and 
elsewhere. Now caring for her mother, at Bozeman, 
Montana. 

h 158 William Hunt. m(l)Ella Venable. (ch: Alice 

Louise.) m (2) Carries on Ore-Smelting, Salt 

Lake City, Utah. 

h 159 Prof. Charles C, Zoology, Iowa University, 
Iowa City. Is also Curator of Museum, etc. Twice 
married. No report as to children. Has published 
a standard work on Hydroids. 

h 160 Nellie, m Rev. Charles Highfield. Was 
pastor at Hamburg, Iowa. (Ch: Ross, Rufus.) 

h 161 Annie, m Rev Marion Ross. Now at 
Bozeman, Montana, 1908. Both Mr Highfield and 
Mr. Ross are Presbyterian pastors. They were also 
intimate friends in their educational course. 

XXXIII. Ch: of g 87 Prof. Timothy Dwight, 7, 
brother of above, m Mary Foote. 



196 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

h 162 Henry Dwight. m Ella Coffey. Restaurant, 
Emporia, Kansas. One son, Harry. 

h 163 Harriet, m Oliver Burnham, Farmer and 
Banker, Lawton, Oklahoma. "Several children." 

h 164 William. Clerk. Salt Lake City. 

h 165 Jennie, m Eugene Skenck, lives at Kansas 
City, Kas. "Two Children." 

XXXIV Ch: of g 89 Martha Egerton 7, sister of 
above, m Daniel Leonard WOOD, 1854. 

h 166 Marcia Manning, 1857. Single. Cares for 
her mother. 

h 167 Leonard Dwight, 1860. d 1863. 

h 168 Clara Lobdell, 1862. m John Adams Glover, 
1S84. 

h 169 Willis Glover, 1865. m Martha Beatrice 
Kimball. 

h 170 Edson Torry, 1868. m Belle Baldwin. (Res. 
Indianapolis. Real Estate, Insurance, etc.) 

h 171 Herbert Sellick. 1871. m Anna Louise Carter. 

XXXV Ch: of g 90 Rev William Jarvis Gregg, 

brother of above, m (1) Lucy Gale, of Peoria, (2) Mar- 
garet Jones, daughter of Dr. S. A. Jones, dean of the 
Homeo. college, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

h 172 Lucy,, .lives at Howell, Mich. 

h 173 Grace, and h 174 Samuel Manning both d 
in inf. 

h 175 Marcia. 

h 176 Prof. Edwin T. m Margaret Jones, 1906. 

The Chamberlain Branch 

XXXVI Ch:ofg 94 Rev Jacob CHAMBERLAIN, 

1). D., LL. D., missionary to India, 7, Anna Nutting, 
6 (m Jacolj Chamberlain Sr.), Wm. Nutting 5, 4, 
Jonathan .S, [ohn 2, 1. Dr. C. m Charlotte C. Birge. 
h 177 Jacob Chester, 1860. m Anna M. Irwin, 1895 d. 



THE CHAMBERLAIN BRANCH 197 

h 178 William Isaac. Missionary in India. Re- 
turned for the health of his wife, now professor in 
Rutgers Coll., New Brunswick, N. J. 

h 179 Rev. Lewis Birge, 1864. Missionary, India. 

h 180 Rufus Nutting, 18GG. Electrical Engineer, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

h 181 Arthur Egerton, 1867, d 1878. 

h 182 Charles Storr, 1872. 

XXXVII Ch: of g 95 William Isaac CHAMBER- 
LAIN, LL. D. from Rutgers 1886, Ohio University 
1887, brother of Dr. Jacob of India, m Lucy Marshall. 

h 183 Jennie, 1865. m Prof. Henry H. Hosford of 
Doane College, Crete, Neb. 

h 184 Herbert William, 1867, m Marion L. Lewis, 
of Waltham, Mass. d at Sienna, Italy, 1899. 

h 185 Joseph Scudder, Prof, at Iowa Ag. Coll., Ames, 
Iowa. Now in Government emplov as Chemist, 
Washington, D. C. m Mary C. Brauns^ 1904. 

h 186 Clifton Marshall, 1875, d 1891. h 187 A son. 

h 188 Carroll Luther. Both d in infancy. 

XXXVIII Ch: of g 97 Charles Allen, Macon, Ga. 
7, Abel 6, 5 (Weathersfield, Vt. ), William 4, Jonathan 
3, John 2, 1. m (1) Emily Compton, of Jasper Co., Ga. 
(2) By 1st marriage, 

h 188 Ellen Annette, 1845. 

h 189 Ann Eliza, 1848. m Benjamin Pressley 
Walker, 1869. 
By 2d marriage 

h 190 Charles Merritt, 1855. m Leila lones, 1881. 
h 191 Cora Ida, 1858, d— . 
h 192 Isaac, 1861, d— . 
h 193 Clara Augusta, 1863, d— . 
,1 



n 



19S NUTTING GENEALOGY 

h 194 Mattie North, 18GG. - Lives at Macon, Ga. 
Res. of Chas. Merritt is given as Jeffersonville, Ga. 

XXXIX Ch: of g 98 James Furber, brother of 
Charles Allen, m Eppie A. Holmes, of Barnesville, Ga. 

h 195 Charles Wilbur, M. D., 1852. m Jennie 
Parker, '81. Lives at Etna, Cal. 

h 196 Willard Holmes, 1854. m Jessie Wallace, 1886. 

h 197 Lutie Amelia, 1850. m James W. Brown, 1880. 

h 198 Mary Francess, 1858. m Frank Burt, 1881. 

h 199 James Robert. Single. State Manager 
Pro\'ident Savings Life Insurance Society (New York), 
Atlanta, Ga. One of my best helpers in this work. 




James Robert Nutting 

I began correspondence with him many years since, 
being introduced by Mr. A. J. Nutting of New York, 
whom he had consulted about the genealogy. He has 
furnished much material, and is one of those whose 
advance pledges made it possible to proceed wnth the 
w^ork. 



EIGHTH GENERATION | 199 

LX Ch: of Chauncey Wheeler 7, Stephen Hill (3, 
Stephen 5 (e 60), Nathaniel 4, 3, * 2, 1. m Martha A. 
McBurney. Lives at Batavia, Iowa. 

h 200 Catherine, 1862. m L. Heckman. 

h 201 William Wilson, 1864. m(l)Alice Lester, (2) 
Effie. . . .Lives at Russell Kansas. "Financier." 

h 202 Stephen H., 1866. m Jessie Yergey, 1889. (Ch: 
Marie, Bessie.) Is a business man, Omaha, Neb. 

h 205 Fred C. m Minnie—. 

h 206 Victor, d at 13. 

In an interview at my home in Iowa, Chauncey W., 
above, gave the name of Nathaniel W. of Concord, 
Mass. , brother of Abraham of Westminster and Stephen. 
His name is not of record at Concord, but such omis- 
sions are common, though in this case the desc. of 
Abraham do not mention this Nathaniel W. It seems 
that he had a son of the same name, Nathaniel W. 7, 
whose Ch: were Charles S. and Abram H, "of the Salt 
Works, Syracuse". Abram H. reports, and says he 
was born at Westminster, Vt., but his people removed to 
Watertown, N.Y. very early, and he cannot trace back. 
But the Ch : of Charles S. speak for themselves. 

XLI Ch: of Fred, brother of Chauncey W. 

h 207 John Edward. Long a Telegraph operator 
at Mills, near Glenwood Iowa, my own home for several 
years, m — W^illiams, dau. of the owner of the land 
including the station, who was a prominent early 
settler. Later, removed to Col. and became a mer- 
chant. 

XLII Ch: of g 104 Jonathan Emerson 7. Jonathan 
6, Ezekiel 5, 4, Daniel 3, John 2, 1. m Florette Pike, 
of Colesville, N. Y. 

h 208 George Herbert, 1852. 



200 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

h 209 Alice Esther, 1854. 

h 210 Fred Pike, IcSoG. m Olive Miller, 1883. 

Mr Fred Pike is an editor and printer, last heard 
from at Albany, Oregon, where he publishes Tlic Albany 
Democrat. A letter of inquiry concerning the family 
history has fallen into my hands, bringing evidence that 
he is not without a])undant luunor. He claims distinc- 
tion because "he is related to the bank that was raided 
bv the Younger brothers!" 

h 211 Florence Evelyn, bSoO. 

h 212 Charles Walter, 1801, m Kezia Thayer, 1891. 

Charles Walter is a Dentist, as his father was 1)efore 
him. Is established at Denver, Col. 

h 213 John Claudius, 1809, m Otelia Langum, 190(). 

I regret that I have no report from the family of 
g 103 John C, of Northfield, Minn, brother of Jonathan 
Emerson, and Pres. of the bank alluded to. 

Starred Names, Eight J i Generation. 

I. Ch: of Fred. Joy, 7 (Ellisburg, N. Y^), Leonard 
Joy (•) (f 95), Russell. 5. *4, 3, 2, 1. (May be, — Eben. 
4, 3. 2, John 1. But not proven.) 

h 214 Ward Joy, Celina, O. 

II. Ch: of g 116 George Franklin, 7, Luther (), 
Oliver of Mason 5, '''4, 3, 2, 1. m Helen A. Bennett. 
(Fitchl)urg.) 

h 215 George Eddie, d in inf. 

h 216 Helen Isabel. 

h 217 John Luther. 

h 218 George Edward. Lil^rarian, Fitchburg, Mass. 
m Jessie C. Dickey. 1903. 

Ill Ch: of g 125 Charles Henry, of New Ipswich, 
7, Abiel Abbott (i, Oliver 5, *4, 3, 2, 1. m Charlotte 
L. Lobdell. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 



201 



h 219 Elias Henry. 1867. m Bertha L. Crowninshield, 
1889. Is a cabinet-maker. 

h 220 Rev. Charles Alfred, 1869. Pastor at Quinsig- 
amond, Worcester, Mass. m Minnie M. Terry7 1904. 
She d 1906. 

h 221 Archer Irving, 1872. m Harriet E. Perry, 1897. 
Machinist and tool-maker. 

h 222 Isabella R., 1875. m Joseph C. Bennett, 1900. 

IV g 130 William Stewart had a son, h 223 Wilber 
Choate, and g 131 Susan (m Johnson) a son h224 Jona- 
than JOHNSON. These are of the 8th generation, and in 
place here. Wilber Choate is long since departed, 
but Jonathan Johnson's bow abides in strength. He 
was born in 1818, and kept his 90th birth-day Aug. 7, 




Jonathan Johnson 

Portrait from Loiuell Courier, Aug. 7, 1908, 

1908, in good health and vigor. He is a jeweler, and 
has done business in the same shop now 66 years. He 
is also an inventor, and has made his inventions pay. 
He was bom in Groton. He remembers the laying of 
the corner stone of Bunker Hill Monument, at which 
he was present, and saw General La Fayette, the guest 
of honor. He was also present in California, a few 
months since, when the great Fleet came in, and 



202 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

took part in the Welcome. His memory antedates 
the first Railroad, and of course all the wonders that 
have followed. He is in excellent health, and fully 
expects to round out his century, at least. 

V Ch: of g 140a Charles, 1817-87. m Nancy S. 
Towne, 18ir)-lU()5. Jaffrey, N. H. 

h 224a Adaline 1880. d. 

h 224b Charles Henry, 1841. d. 

h 224c Adaleza Lucretia, 1843. 

h 224d Edward Adams, 1845. 

h 224e Belle A., 1847. m Russell, Winchendon. 

Mass. 

h 224f George Columbus, 1849. 

h 224g Martha Chandler, 1851. 

h 224h Benjamin Franklin, 1853. 

h 224i Emma, 1855. d. 

h 224k Ella A., 1856. 

h 2241 Frederick Harrison, 1858, Norwood, Mass. 

The last named writes as follows: 
"My father, Charles Nutting, was a contractor of 
considerable prominence, having built many roads 
and highways in the vicinity in which he lived; also 
a stone mason, contracting many stone bridges for 
railroads, etc. I am sorry not to be able to give you 
more facts relating to my ancestors but having left 
home at the age of 19 years to enter the Massachusetts 
College of Pharmacy, then after leaving that institution 
giving 12 years as a practical druggist, later taking a 
4 year course in medicine at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Boston, Mass. Graduating with 
honors from that institution, I was made instructor 
in materia medica and Therapeutics of my alma mater 
in the fall following my graduation, and appointed 



EIGHTH GENERATION 203 

assistant physician at the North End Hospital 1S97- 
1898, interne at the Union General Hospital same year. 
Being a member of the Boston Medical Society, medi- 
cal examiner for the Prudential Life Insurance Co., 
Past Grand of Tiot Lodge of I. O. O. F., Norwood, 
Mass., member of Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 
you will see I have been a fairly busy man for the past 
25 or 30 years." 

B 

Descendants of John 2 

I Ch: of g 145 Lucius Bowles 7, William 6 (f 111), 
Captain John of Pepperell 5, Josiah 4, James 3, 2, 
John 1. mTryphena Orcutt, 1834. Salem ; but seems to 
have often moved. 

h 225 Sarah, 1839, Troy, N. Y. 
h 226 Lizzie, 1843, Nantucket. 
h 227 Lucinda, 1847, Dedham. 

h 228 Lucius Henry, 1848. Paterson, N. J., m 
Helen A. Warner of St Joseph Mo., 1877. 

Mr Nutting is General Passenger Agent for the 
Steamship Line of the Southern Pacific R. R., plying 
from New York to New Orleans. He is one of those 
whose advance pledges have made it possible to 
venture on the publication of this volume. He sent 
me a beautiful advertising pamphlet, showing the 
vessels of the line, and many of the scenes along the 
voyage they make. 

Needing some help in certain investigations at New 
York, I applied to him, and the work was done, very 
tactfully, by Mrs Nutting, who, I afterwards learned, 
was in poor health. She was already engaged upon a 
farther matter of great interest, when the sad news 



204 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

reached me that pneumonia had claimed her as a 
victim. Her letters had been so clearly the work of an 
able and wise personality, that I could in part realize 
the loss and sorrow of her family. I felt honored to 
be counted one of those who should be personally 
informed of the sad event. 

Mr. Nutting's is the only line of descent from Cap- 
tain John of Pepperell and Bunker Hill (and through 
him, from James 2), which I am able to trace. The 
James Branch, like the Jonathan Branch, vanishes 
from our view with this entry. I am sure, however, 
that much more may be learned of this branch, by 
patient search at Salem and vicinity, and in the Ken- 
ebec region of Maine. I intend to continue the inquiry. 



Descendants of Ebenezer 2 

I Ch: of g 147 Thomas Banister, Montclair, N. J. 7, 
Thomas B. 6, Jonatlian (jf Palmer 5, &c. m Nina 
Moore, b Brantford, Ont. 1855. 

h 229 Nina Fredrika, 1878. 

h 230 Harrison Northrup, d in inf. 

h 231 Harrison Butler, Morristown, N. J., 1885. Is 
a traveling salesman for Swift and Co. of Chicago. 

h 232 John Hugh, b887, student at Princeton. 
Will write insurance. 

h 233 Julia Lavima, 1889, d 1893. 

II. Ch: of g 178 Dr. Lucius, of Bozeman, Montana, 
7, Bryant 0, Ebenezer 5, David of Leverett 4, Jonathan 
3, Ebenezer 2, John 1. m Elizabeth Alison. 

h 234 Mary Julia, 1852. m Bryant (). Cowan, 1878. 
h 235 Wilder Mellen, 1854. m Anna Coffin, 1886. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 205 

h 236 Lucius Allison, 1858. m Lillie Ellis, 1891. 
Rancher, Laurel, Montana. "Sheep, a speciality." 

h 237 Willis Bryant, 1860, m Eva Sellers, 1885. 

h 238 Lillie Elizabeth, 1863. 

h 239 Roy Haven, 1865. m Minnie George, 1891. 
This name reminds me of two old friends, Drs. J. E. 
Roy, and Jos. Haven. They may also have been friends 
of Dr. Lucius of Bozeman. 

My information is from Lucius Allison above, and 
from Mrs. Ingraham of Worcester, who is the Genea- 
logical Cyclopedia of the Ebenezer Branch. 

Very lately I have a letter from Lewis A. of Montana. 
Unfortunately, he does not give his descent. 

Ill Ch: of g 180 George of Granby, Mass, bro of 
Dr. Lucius above, m Marv L. Lyman, of Granby. 

h 240 Oliver George, 1856. m No ch. 

a 241 Dwight C, 1861. m May Bardwell, 1882. 

h 242 William Lucius, 1867, d 1894. m Cora Belle 
Adams, of Amherst. Lived at Amherst. 

IV. Ch: of g 189 William Porter of Milo, Iowa, 7, 
David 6, Porter 5, David of Leverett 4, Jonathan of 
Brimfield 3, Ebenezer 2, John 1. 

h 243 Herbert William, h 244 Nellie Ann. 
h 245 Rev. Ansel Ernest. Parsons College, Iowa, 
1905, Belleview Pres. Theol. Sem. 1908. 
h 246 David Raymond, h 247 John Gordon, 
h 248 Myrtle May. h 249 Mary Lavina. 
h 250 Infant, d in inf. 

V. Desc. of Jonas of Westford. 

Ch: of Walter Asa, Blackstone St., Boston, and 
Victor P. 7 John P. of New Ipswich 6, John of Ash- 
bumham 5, Jonas of Westford 4, Thomas 3 ( ?) 
Ebenezer 2. John 1. 



206 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

(The information-blank did not call for the children 
of the persons addressed, though most returns contain 
this item. This return does not, but if Walter Asa 
has children, their names would belong here.) 

The family of John, of Leominster seems to derive 
from this Jonas, but the statement is not quite clear. 

"Jonas Nutting had 5 Children, Jonas, Hiram, Sally 
Phineas and John." Ou. Was the father Jonas of 
Westford above ? I have no means of deciding. 

VI Ch: of "John Chauncey, of Leominster, b 1833, 
d 1S9.S, eldest son of Jonas and Lucy Sylvester, and 
m Maria Stone, 1S57." 

h 251 Jennie Maria, 18()(), m Austin Presby, 1891. 

h 252 Willie John, 1802. m Gertrude M. Jarvis, 
1890. 

J h 253 Eddie Herbert, 1869, m Carolines. Rugg, 1896. 
'" h 254 Charles Allen, 1873, m Alice Merriman, 1904. 

h 255 Franklin Stone, 1877. 

It is farther stated that "Jonas, and four of his sons, 
were in the Civil War". (The report of the Leominster 
family was not upon the blank, but in letter form, 
and so was overlooked until too late for explanations.) 

VII Northampton- Amherst-Faribault line. 

Ch: of g 195 Eli, of Kent, O., 7, George 6, John 5, 
Ebenezer 4, 3, 2. John 1. 

h 256 Myron Eli. 

h 257 Anna M. A high-school teacher, in high 
esteem. Some confusion of her name with that of my 
daughter Anna, led to an acquaintance in the 1870's. 

VIII Ch: of g 196 Juliana 7, sister of Eli. m Mosely 
J. KENDALL. 

h 258 George Lyman, 1837. m Mary Beardsley, ISGO. 
h 259 Leonora C, 1839. m Horace Taylor, 1860. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 207 

h 260 Frank L., 1840. m Mary Barrett, 1867. 

h 261 Julia S., 1844. m (1) John Sanborn, 1870, (2) 
A. G. Hibbard, 1888. 

h 262 Isadore, 1846. m Gidney Stiles, Southbury, 
Conn., 1870. h 263 Daniel I., 1849. 

h 264 Frederic M., 1852. m Elizabeth Houts, 1884. 

h 265 Harriet A., 1854. m Albion Gould, 1881. 

h 266 Jennie C, 1856. m Lawrence Whitney, 1882. 

IX Ch: of g 202a Porter 7,. Rev Ebenezer 6, John 5, 
Ebenezer 4, 3, 2, John 1. m 

h 267 George, m — . Four children, names not given. 

X Ch: of g 202e George, bro. of Porter above, m — . 
h 268 Eugene, h 269 Porter, h 270 Mabel. 

XI Ch: of g 205 Henry, Truman 6, John 5, Eben- 
ezer 4, 3, 2, John 1. 

h 271 Jennie, 1852. h 272 Mary, 1870-1888. h 272a 
Fred, 1872. h 272b Willis. 

XII Ch: of g 207 Frank, bro. of Henry above. m(l) 
Sarah Brown, (2) Jane Reed. 

By 1st wife, h 272c Frank, 1858. h 272d Warren 
Arthur, 1861. h 272e Irving Maud, 1867. h 272f Fred 
Harry, 1871. h 272g Lizzie John, 1873. h 272h Law- 
rence, 1876. h 272i Ethel, 1878. 

By 2d wife h 272j Iva, h 272k Ellen. 

XII Ch: of g 209 Sidney, bro. of Henry above. |m 
(1) Etna King, (2) Nancy Connor. Elgin, 111. 

By 1st wife, h 2721 Perry, 1869-91 ; h 272m Carrie, 
1871. 

By 2d wife, h 272n Howard, 1895, h 272o Harrison, 
1897. 

XIII Ch: of g 210 Elijah C, bro. of Henry above, 
m Emerette Pomroy, Faribault, Minn. 



20S NUTTING GENEALOGY 

h 272p Walter, 1S74. m— (ch: Ida Ruth.) h 272q 
Bertha. 

XIV Ch: of g 212 Truman jr., bro. of Henry, above, 
ni jane Weaver. 

h 272r Bessie m— (ch: Muriel) 

XV Ch: of g 213f Mary, m— . 

h 272s Edith, h 272t Margie, h 272u Willis, h 272v 
Fred. 

XVI Ch:ofg 213k Winter, m— . 
h 272w Horace, lUOiJ. 

XVII Ch: of g 206 Alonzo 7, Truman (i, John o, 
Ebenezer 4, 3, 2, John 1. m (1) Mary Elizabeth Brown, 
of Granby, (2) Louise C. Alley of W. Springfield, Mass., 
who survives. 

h 273 Mary Isabel 1854. m John Atzbach. 

h 274 Cora Adelaide, 1858. 

h 275 Charles Sumner, 1850. ni Catherine 

Business man. Boston. 

h 276 Henry Brown, d in inf. 

h 277 William Henry, d 19{)(). 

h 278 By 2d marriage, Frank Porter, 1S07. m 
Mary Louise Lathrop, of W. Springheld. (Ch: Frank 
Lathrop, d in inf.) 

XVIII Ch: of g 219 George Samuel, m Katherine R. 
Wood. 

h 27^ Cheryle W., living with her uncle Walpole 
Wood at Los Angeles. Unmarried. 

Starred Names, Ninth Generation 

\. Ch: of g 225 Stephen M. 7, Hiram 0, Abraham 
5, Nathaniel 4, .3. *2, 1. 

h 280 Frank E, 18G5. m NeUie M. Wiley, 1888. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 209 

h 281 Harry E, 1808. 

h 282 Walter C, 1872. m Carrie P. Fenn, 1896. 
h 283 William E., 1878. m Alice M. Fenn, 1807. 
Chicago. 

II. Ch: of g 227 Mary Ann 7, m Rev. A. B. DAS- 
COMB; Nathaniel 6, Abraham 5, Nathaniel 4, 3, *2, 1. 

h 283 Rev. Harry Nutting, now pastor (1908) at 
Grinnell, Iowa. 

h 284 George A. Lives in Texas, but has a summer 
home at Westminster, Vermont. 

III Ch: of Charles S. 7, Nathaniel W. 6, 5, Nathan- 
iel 4, 3, *2, 1. m Laura Goodrich. 

h 286 Charles, 18.52. 

h 287 Laura Adella, 1854. m John Gorman, of 
Ogdens1:)urg. 

h 288 Augusta. 1850. m W. R. Pratt. 

h 289 Frank B., 1800. m Aileen Clark. 

h 290 Alice Mary, m Dana Barnes. 

h 291 Lewis A. m Mattie Belev (Belsy ?). 

h 292 Anna L. 1870. 

IV Ch: of Levi Carr, 7, John of Onondaga Hill, 
N. Y. (see g 230) 0, "Samuel of Conn." 5. earlier 
ancestry,*: m Hattie Walrath. (Location and em- 
ployment suggest connection with the Concord line; 
but no record.) 

h 293 Charles Eugene, 1874. m Lulu Anna Walter, 
1898. 

V Ch: of g 234 Rev James Hill, 7. Joseph (of 
Howard, R. I.) Previous ancestry not traced, m 
Fanny S. Herman. Was long Chaplain of R. I. State 
Prison, in which office he d. 

h 294 Alpha H., 1803. m Clara Werniga. 



210 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

h 295 Jas. H. d in inf. 

h 296 Gertrude E., 1869. m G. W. Greene of Woon- 
SDckel . 

h 297 Fannie M. h 298 Sarah E. 
h 299 William E. m 19U5. 

VI Ch: of Melvin 7, David 6. Charles, brother of 
David, is placed at Lewiston, Me. Letters bring no 
reply. Location suggests connection with either the 
Norridgewock (James) line, or the Thomaston (Jona- 
than) line or possibly the Lisbon. But earlier ancestry 
not clear. 

h 300 William Melvin, of Dorchester Mass. m . . . . 
in 1899. (Ch: Louis Wilham, d at 11. Walter Curtis, 
1907.) 

h 301 Isa May, 1870. Informant and his sister 
were early orphaned, and have lived with strangers. 

VII Ch: of g 244 William Hemy Harrison, 
h 302 Grace, m Cardeen. no ch. 

h 303 James Cole, of Brooklyn. (Ch: John Gordon, 
Loval Irvini^.) 

h 304 W^ H. H. jr. Married. (Ch: a daughter, 1891.) 

h 305 Frank Livingston, m Lives at Portland, 

Me. 

h 306 Charles Denison. m. . . Lives at Brooklyn. 
No children. 

VIII Ch: of g 246 William B., 7, Edwin Shaw, 6, of 
Canton, Mass. d 1897. I think this line could be traced, 
but the data furnished me are too slight, m Lillior 
Temple Dowling. Family live at Allston, Mass. 

h 307 Marion G. 1891. h 308 Alma Temple, 1893. 

IX Ch: of g 254 Col. Lee 7, Marcus G, Nathan of 
Beverly 5. 



EIGHTH GENERATION 211 

h 309 Grace, m Philip Moore, Engineer-in-chief of 
Mic-mac gold mine, Nova Scotia. 

h 310 Raymond. Grad. Cornell coll., 1903. Stroke 
oar, intercollegiate races, Poughkeepsie, 1904. Mining 
engineer, Cerro de Pasco, Pa. 

h 311 Olive, m 1898. 

X Ch: of g 255 Thomas W., brother Col. Lee. m 
(1) Deborah Walker, (2) Cora Martin. 

h 312 Louisa, by 2d wife. 

XI Ch: of g 256 Nathan, M.D., brother of Col. Lee 
m Caroline A. Jelliff. 

h 313 Herbert C. Grad. Yale, 1895. Won a fellow- 
ship leading to Ph.D. 1897. Is assistant professor. 
University of Cal. 

XII. Ch: of g 257 Louisa S., Sister Col. Lee. m 
(1) WALKER, (2) LAWRENCE. 

h 314 Daniel, h 315 Bella, h 316 Arthur, h 317 
Florence, all by 1st marriage. 

XIII Ch: of g 258 Marcus, brother Col. Lee. m 
Hannah Coleman. 

h 318 Rachel, h 319 Marcus. 

XIVCh:ofg264MosesP. 7,John"ofMass.orN.H."(). 

h 320 George Pierce, 1837. h 321 Philetus Mar- 
cellus, 1839. m Frances Browning. Was a locomotive 
engineer, d of brain fever, owing to mental strain, 18G5. 

h 322 Phebe Jane, 1842, m William B. Jones, 1860. 

h 323 Ann Celia, h 324 Mary Ann, l)oth d in inf. 

h 325 John Anthony, 1851, d 1907. 

h 326 Emma Eliza, 1855, d 1900. m Linus B. Mason, 
1876. 

Blank addressed to John Anthony, who d before it 
arrived. It was filled out by Lilian S., daughter of 
Phebe Nutting Jones, above. To whom thanks. 



The Ninth Generation 

The few (usually very young) children who would 
make up the tenth Generation, are included with their 
parents of the ninth, which accordingly will close the 
series. 

A 

Descendants of John 2 

I. Ch: of h 28 Caleb L. Medford, Mass. 
i 1 Harold B., 1890. 

II. Ch; of h 31 John Day, son of William(g 48). 
i^2 Ira Benjamin, i 3 William Pratt, m May 

Pomfret. Lives in Worcester Mass. One son. 

i 4 Abbie Catherine, m Jos. Frost, of N. H. 

i 5 Helen, m Henry C. Thome, policeman, Quincy, 
Mass. (Seven ch: names not given.) 

i 6 Eunice Day, unmarried. 

III. Ch: of h 33 Walter Ed. Hawes, son of William. 
m Susan R. Stoddard. 

i 7 Adelaide Louisa, m Edward O. Carlton. Live 
at Maynard, Mass. k 1 One son, Frederic George, 
an engineer on Battle Ship New Jersey now on the 
voyage round the world. See portrait page 213. 

i 8 Edward Lincoln, m Alice Chapman. 

i 9 Frederic Gushing, m Marv White, (3uincy, Mass. 
Ch : k 2 Alice May, k 3 Walter, k 4 Josie, k 5 Addie, 
k 6 Annie. 

i 10 George H. 

TV Ch: of h 34 Chas. Augustus, brother of John D. 
i 11 Austin, d. 



NINTH GENERATION 



213 




Frederic George Carlton 

i 12 Jennie May, m Cunningham. (Eiglit Ch: 
names not given.) 

V Ch: of h 35 Joshua Hanson, brother of John D. 
i 13 Shirley Foye, m Lulu Sturgis. (Quincy, Mass.) 

This group is mostly found in Quincy and vicinity, 
Mass. Information from Mrs Carlton and Mrs Adams, 
above. 

VI Ch: of h 48 Charles Albert, 8, Charles A, 7. 
William 6, 5, 4, Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. m (1) Elizabeth 
Bryant; (2) Josephine Bryant. 

i 14 Lloyd Oliver, 1873. m 1898, Mamie Blatchley. 
Ch: k 7 Ray Elwin, 1899. 

i 15 Clinton Albert, 1876. m 1897, Emma Sewell, of 
St. John, N. D. 



214 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Ch: k 8 Florence Maude, 1898; k 9 Isla Sarah 
Maria, 19()(). d in inf.; k 10 Margeret, 1901, d in inf.; 
k 11 Charles Albert, 1903; k 12 An infant. 1905. 

i 16 Isabel Maude, 1S7S, m Lerov TUTTLE. Ch: 
k 13 Ream Nutting, 1900; k 14 Ruth Elizabeth, 1902. 

i 17 Sadie, ISSO. m (1) Richard Teela (or THIELE.) 
Ch:k 15 Athene Velma, 1901. 

i 18 Bv 2d marriage, Leroy William, 1893. 

i 19 Clarence Norton, 189(3. 

VII Ch: of h 50 Samuel Edward, brother of Chas. 
Albert above, m (1) Henrietta Shepard, (2) Clara 
Louise Hooker. Ch: By 1st m. 

k 15a Charles Oilman and k 15b Mabel Horton (twins) 
1877. 

i 20 Chas. Gilman m Lucile Judd. He is in charge 
of the linen department, Marshall Field's Wholesale 
House, Chicago. Goes to Europe semi-annually for 
"hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of linens". 
Ch:k 16 Harold Judd, 1902. 

i 21 Mabel Horton, above, m Jesse Luce, electric 
eng., Oak Park, 111. 

i 22 Louis Edward. Marshall Field's wholesale 
house. Lives Oak Park, m 1907, Pearle Young. Ch: 
k 17 Robert Cowan, 1908. 

i 23 Loyal Shepard, 1883. Mercantile steel trade, 
Chicago, Oak Park. 

VIII Ch: of h 53 Lillian, sister of Clias. Albert, 
above, m George CASTNER. 

i 24 Cora, 1887. A teacher. 

i 25 John, 1891. i 26 Ethel, 1893. i 27 Frona, 1894. 

IX Ch: of h 54 Stella Cora, sister of Chas. Albert 
above, m James BENNETT. 

i 28 Lillian Persis, 1890. i 29 Mabel Lucile, 1891. 



NINTH GENERATION 215 

i 30 Lucien James, 1894. i 31 Dorothy Nutting, 

189G. 

X Ch: of h 55 Harlan P. K., brother of Chas. 
Albert above, m UKJl, Edith Howard Ricliardson, of 
Ayer, Mass. 

i 32 Clifford Richardson, 1902. 

XI Ch: of h 56 Clarence E. V., brother Charles 
Albert, m Lena Patterson, 1890. 

i 33 Wayne Oliver, 1894. 
i 34 Richard Edward, 1903. 

XII Ch: of h 57 Clara Mabel Violet, sister of Chas. 
Albert, m William HOPKINS. 

i 35 Charles Evelyn, d in inf. 
i 36 Evelyn Nutting, 1902. 

XIII Ch: of h 58 Perley G. m Eva Lightfoot. 
i 37 A son, 1907. 

XIV Ch: of h 60 William Rufus 8, Rufus 7, William 
6, 5, 4, Jonathan 3, John 2, 1. m Celia Frenvear. 

i 38 Franklin Porter, 1876. Grad. University of 
Cal. lawyer, San Francisco. Unmarried. 

i 39 Robert Frenyear, 1878. m Margaret Dunn, 1904. 

i 40 Earl McNeil, 1879. Box mfr., Fresno, Cal. 
Unmarried. 

i 41 Elsie, 1881. Grad. Univ. of Cal, Master's 
degree at Radcliffe. Teacher, Berkle^^ Cal. 

i 42 Louise Marie, 1885. m Ralph Flint MITCHELL. 
1906. Ch:k 18 Harriet Frenyear, 1906. 

XV Ch: of h 61 Rev John Danforth 8, Rufus 7, etc. 
m (1) Nannie Keith Miller, of Oberlin, (2) Lillis Russell 
Morley, 1890. 

i 43 Bv 1st marriage, Nannie Keith Miller, bSSO. 



216 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

i 44 Bv 2d, John Morley, 1891. 
i 45 Lillis Ruth, 1S92. 
i 46 Paul Thomas, 1898. 
The famil\' live at Cleveland, O. 

XVI Ch: uf h 63 Wallace S, Rufus 7, etc. m May F. 
Waite, Weldon, Mich. 

i 47 Ella, d in inf. 

i 48 Ruby May, 1887. A teacher. 

i 49 Jennie Ruth, 1889. i 50 d in inf. 

i 51 Fannie Pearl, 1S97. Home at Benzonia, Mich. 

XVIa Ch: of h 71 Robert B. 
i 51a Hazel Dorothea. 1SU(). 

XVlb Ch: of h 75d George Hale 8, David Hubbard 
7, etc. m Hannah Maria Brown, Boston. 

i 51b Dorothy Barrett. 1892. 

i 51c Nathaniel Hubbard, 1899. See portrait of 
three generations, page 121. 

XVIc Ch: of h 75e Charles Henry, brother of 

George Hale, m. Blanche 

i 51d Avis, 1898. 

XVId Ch: of h 75f Frederic Williams, brother of 
George, m Lillian Maxson. 
1 51c Mabel Barstow, 1898. 

XVII Ch: of h 77 Sarah Ann GOULD. 

i 52 Edwin, i 53 Mabel, i 54 Anna May. 

XVIII Ch: of h 85 Lavinia GREEN, 
i 55 Albert, i 56 Ella M. 

XIX Ch: of h 91 George H. PATCH, m Loretta 
Ramse\', 187o. 

i 57 "Mary N., 187(). i 58 Allen Jacob, 1878. i 59 
Orrin George, 1879. i 60 Harry Marshall, 1882. 



NINTH GENERATION 217 

XX Ch: of h 96 Julia Brace Patch, m Rev. G A 
MCKINLEY, Spokane. 

i 61 Charles Edwin, i 62 Arthur P. i 63 Roslyn. 
i 64 Joseph France, i 65 Alice Cornelia, i 66 Edwin 
Lawrence. 

XXI Ch: of h 99 Sarah Patch, m Rev. Mr. JONES, 
Youngstown, O. 

i 67 Rev. Walter C, WaterviUe, Wash. 

i 68, 69 Two others, of whom we have no record. 

XXII Ch: of h 115 Mary Jane Ames RAYMOND. 
i 70 Ernest Conkling, d young. 

XXIII Ch:ofh 116 Sarah A. Ames E AMES, 
i 71 Walter Clifford d. 

i 72 Annie R. m — Moses, 
i 73 Nellie. 

XIV Ch: of h 117 Charles William BARDEEN, 

m Ellen Palmer Dickerman, Syracuse, N. Y. 

i 74 Charles Russell, 1871. After graduation from 
Syracuse high school spent a year with his brother and 
sisters at the Teischmann Schule, Leipzig, German}^ 
Was graduated from Harvard 1893, and from Johns 
Hopkins Medical School 1897. Remained at Johns 
Hopkins as associate professor of anatomy till 1904 
when he became professor of anatomy in the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin, and on the establishment of a 
medical school in 1907 became its first dean. He is 
a leading authority upon anatomy and has published 
many medical works. See "Who's Who in America". 
In 1905 m Althea Harmer, graduate of Pratt Institute, 
and former instructor in the John Dewey school, now 




Mrs Allhea Harmer Bardeen, William Bardeen, John Bardeen 



THE BARDEEN BRANCH 



219 




Charles Russell Bardeen 



a part of the Chicago University. She is an authority 
upon Japanese art. They have two children, k 19 
William, 1906. k 20 John, 1908. 

i 75 Bertha, 1873. Was graduated from Smith 
College in 1895, and has been prominent in alumnae 
work. Lives with her parents. 

i 76 Beatrice, 1875. Spent two years at Smith 
College, and in 1904 m David ATWATER M. D., of 
Rochester. Ch: k 21 David Farnsworth, 1908. 

i 77 Norman, 1877. Was graduated from Hotch- 
kiss school, 1896, and from Yale 1900. Is secretary 
of the Lee Paper Co., Vicksburg, Mich., of which his 





The Bardeen Children in 1887 



Mrs Beatrice Bardeen Atwater 




Norman Bardeen, Maxwell Dickerman Bardeen, Charles William Bardeen 



THE BARDEEN BRANCH . 221 

uncle George (h 118) is vice-president. In H)()l m 
Elizabeth Arnold Atwater, sister of Dr. David Hastings 
Atwater (see i 76), thus doubly connecting the two 
families. It is an interesting fact that David Hastings 
and Elizabeth are lineal descendants of David Atwater, 
one of the original "planters" of New Haven. (See 
record of the father, Richard Mead Atwater, 4001 in 
"Atwater History and Genealogy", Meriden, Conn., 
1901, where a picture of the entire family is given.) 
Beatrice and Norman are also lineal descendants of 
Lieutenant Abraham Dickerman, who went to New 
Haven in 1659 from Dorchester (see "Families of 
Dickerman Ancestry, descendants of Thomas Dicker- 
man, an early settler of Dorchester, Mass.", New Haven, 
1S97, pp. 145, 486), and the families lived near each 
other seven generations ago. 

The mother of David Hastings and Elizal)eth 
Arnold Atwater is Abby Sophia Greene Atwater (3172 
in "The Greenes of Rhode Island", New York, 1903), 
a lineal descendant of Roger Williams. 

Ch: k 22 Maxwell Dickerman, 1903. 

i 78 Ethel, 1879. Educated at Burnham school. 
Northampton. Lives w4th her parents. In 1904 
when visiting the Patches in Groton she talked with 
Zara Patch (g 66) about her great great grandfather 
Bardeen, whom he remembered well. 

XXV Ch: of h 118 George Edward, m Abby Carder, 
Otsego, Mich. 

i 79 Marjory, 1872. m Minet Berton McCLELLAN, 
president Mac Sim Bar Paper Co., Otsego, Mich. 

Children k 23 Marjory, 1898. k 24 Dorothy, 1901. 

i 79 Ralph Howard, d at twenty months. 



222 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

i 80 George Edward, jr. 1888, now a student in the 
University of Michigan. 

XXVI Ch: of h 119 Mary Elizabeth, m Frank 
CARLE, Minneapohs. See picture, page 128. 

i 81 Katherine, 1879. Graduate Smith coll. Lives 
with her father. 

i 82 Edith, d young. 

i 83 Wilhelmina, d young. 

XXVII Ch: of h 121 Josiah Kendall BENNETT 

8, Lucinda H. 7, Joseph D, 6, Wm. 5, 4, Jonathan 3, 
John 2, 1. m Abbie Torrey. 

i 84 James. A master-builder. Connected with care 
of buildings, Groton School, m Elizabeth May Gilson 
of Groton. 

i 85 Beatrice Ethel, graduated from Vassar. m Dr. 
H. H. Mapps, who carries on a sanitarium at Buena 
Vista, Va. 

XXVIII Ch: of h 123a Rev William Parmenter 

BENNETT, brother of above, m Harriet Irene 
Blodgett. 

i 86 Emily Irene, 1865. d in inf. 

i 87 John Newton, 1867. Grad. Doane college. 
Became professor Doane college, and continues in 
that office, m— — -. 

i 88 Rev Joseph H. 9, d 1908. (Ch: An inf. son.) 

i 89 Bessie, d young. 

i 90 Anna, m — . One child. 

i 91 Paul, unmarried. 

XXIX Ch: of h 136 Claire 8, Daniel Chaplin 7, Jos- 
eph D. 6, etc. m Wm. EVANS. 

i 93 William Nutting, 1880. m Una Pearl Wilson, 
1904. Hardware merch't, Dufor, Oregon. 



NINTH GENERATION 223 

i 94 David Chaplin, 1882. Mining Engineer. 

i 95 Huntly Murrell (Miss), 1884. 

i 96 Mabel, 1887. 

i 97 John Francis, 1891. 

XXX Ch: of h 137 Martha Elizabeth, m Robert 
CORNELISON, sister of Claire. 

i 98 Robert. On the death of his father and sister, 
assumed his father's business, at Reserve, Kas. 

i 99 Mabel Violet. Another instance of the lovliest 
being taken. Beautiful and gifted, she came home 
from the University which she was attending, already 
unconscious from typhoid, and never regained con- 
sciousness, dying in a few days. Both parents took 
the disease, and the fatlier died. 

Two ch : d in inf. , i 100 Edward, and i 101 Paul. 

XXXII Ch: of h 139 Ellen Lucinda ("Lulu") 8, m 
Walter BATES. Sister of above. 

i 102 Walter Nutting, 1887. i 103 Daniel Chaplin, 
1890. i 104 Ruth Ellen, 1892. i 105 John Samuel, 
1895. i 106 Mary Jane, 1898. i 107 Murrell, 1900. 
i 108 Joseph Franklin, 1903. Home at Ellensburg, 
Wash. 

XXXII Ch: of h 140 Mary Eliza, m John F. 
WALKER, of Kentucky. Sister of above. 

i 109 Ellen Elizabeth, 1901. 

i 110 John Robert, 1906. Home at Reserve, Kas. 

XXXIII Ch: of h 150 Lyman Beecher. 

i 111 Charles Mildred, i 112 Dorothy, i 113 
Gertrude. 

XXXIV Ch: of h 151 Martha Nutting HIGGINSON. 
i 114 Charles, i 115 Harry, i 116 Dayton. 

XXXV Ch: of h 154 William Brown. 



224 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

i 117 Claud a. 

XXXVI Ch: of h 155 Millicent Nutting DODD. 
i 118 Re\'. William, in Kansas. 

i 119 Rev. Albert, missionary, Shantung, China. 
In childhood he was a mathematical and linguistic 
prodigy. He remains single. 

XXXVII Ch: of h 158 William Hunt, Salt Lake 
City, m Ella Venable. i 120 Alice Louise. 

XXXVIII Ch: of h 160 Nellie Nutting HIGHFIELD, 
Haml)urg, la. 

i 121 Ross, i 122 Rufus. 

XXXIX Ch: of h 162 Henry Dwight,' m Ella CofTey 
Foote. i 123 Harry. 

XL Ch: of h 168 Clara Lobdell Wood GLOVER. 
Mr. John Adams Glover, her husband, is Manager 
Electric Light & Heating Co. and Danville Interur- 
ban R. R. Lives at Urbana. 

i 124 Leonard Wood, 1887. 

i 125 Donald Mitchell, 1895. 

XLI Ch: of h 170 Edson Torrey WOOD, m Belle 
Baldwin. Indianapolis. 

i 126 Gaylord Ashlyn, 1800. i 127 Edson Torrey, jr. 

XLII Ch: of h 171 Herbert Sellick WOOD, m 

Anna Louise Carter. 

i 128 Harold Maxwell, teller Indianapolis National 
Bank. 

XLIII Ch: of h 183 Jennie Chamberlain HOS- 
FORD, Crete, Neb. 

i 130 Caroline, i 131 Herbert, i 132 Donald, i 133 
Harold. 



NINTH GENERATION 225 

XLIV Ch : of h 195 Dr. Charles W. m Jennie Par- 
ker, Etna, Cal. 

i 134 Charles W. ir. i 135 James A. i 136 Epcle 
Grace, i 137 Willard A. i 138 Susie, i 139 Helen, 
i 140 Furber Lane. 

XLV Ch: of h 200 Catherine HECKMAN. 

i 141 Chauncey. i 142 George, i 143 Florence 

XLVI Ch: of h 201 William Wilson, Russell Kud. 
i 144 Floyd, i 145 Ada. i 146 Dean, i 147 Noel. 

XLVII Ch: of h 202 Stephen H. m Jessie Yergey. 
Omaha, Neb. 

i 148 Marie, i 149 Bessie. 

XLVIII Ch: of h 205 Fred C. 
i 150 Clarence, i 151 Victor. 

XLIX Ch: of h 207 John Edward. Merchant in Col. 

L Ch: of h 210 Fred Pike, m Olive Miller, 1883. 
Albany, Ore. 

i 152 Fred. 

i 153 Florette, 1884. i 154 Ray, 1889. i 155 
Violet, 1899. 

LI Ch: of h 212 Charles Walter, m Kezia Thayer. 
Denver, Colo. 

i 156 Mildred 1895. 

LII Ch: of h 218 George Edward, m Jessie C. 
Dickey. Fitchburg, Mass. 
i 157 Raymond Erwin, 1904. 

LIII Ch: of h 219 Elias Henry, m Bertha L. 
Crowninshield. 

i 158 Florence L. 1891. i 159 Lillian L 1893. 
i 160 Charlotte E. 1899. 



220 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

LIY Cli: of h 220 Rev. Charles Alfred, m Minnie 
M. Terr\-. Worcester, Mass. 
i 161 Hazel Mae, 190(). 

L\^ Ch: of h 221 Archer Irving, m Harriet E. Perry. 
i 162 Ralph G. 1898. 

LVI Ch: of h 228 Lucius Henry, m Helen A. 
Warner. Paterson, N. J. 

i 163 Helen LS78. ni Dr. Loyal Bissell, surgeon, 
N. V. C\iy. 

i 164 Ruth, 1883. i 165 Lois, 1889. 

LVH Ch: of h 241 Dwight C. m May Bardwdl. 
Granbv, Mass. 

i 166 George H. i 167 Lucius P. i 168 Alice C. 

LVin Ch: of h 242 William Lucius, m Cora Belle 
Adams. Amherst. 

i 169 Charles Raymond, 1888, d 1894. 

i 170 Rena, 1890. i 171 Bertha, 1892. i 172 Clara, 
1894. 

LTX Ch : (^f h 252 Willie John, m Gertrude M. Jarvis. 
i 173 Howard Sterling. 

LX Ch: of h 253 Eddie Herbert, m Caroline S. 
Rugg. 

i 174 Gladys Beryle Catherine, 1898. i 175 Doris 
Althea, d in infancy. 

LXl Cli: of h 254 Charles Allen, m Alice Merriam. 
i 176 John Lyman, 1905. i 177 Charles Edward, 

1900. 

LXIf Ch: of h 259 Leonora, m Horace TAYLOR. 

i 177a Ernest, 1861. i 177b Lulu S., 1863. i 177c 
Clarence, 1866. i 177d Leslie K., 1869. i 177e Ever- 
ette, 1871. i 177f Amy T., 1880, 



NINTH GENERATION 227 

LXIII Ch: of h 261 Julia S. Kendall SANBORN, 
i 178 Faith, Nuttinghame, Southlniry, Conn. Artist. 

LXIV Ch: of h 278 Frank Porter, m Mary Louise 
Lathrop. 

i 179 Frank Lathrop, cl in infancy. 

LXV Ch: of h 299 William Melvin, Dorchester, 
Mass. 

i 180 Louis William, d at 11. 
i 181 Walter Curtis, 1907. 

C 

Descendants of Ebenezer 2 

LXVI Ch: of h 275 Charles Sumner 8, Alonzo 7, 
Truman 6, John 5, Ebenezer 4, 3, 2, John 1. 
i 182 Lillith May. 




Lillith May Nutting 

About a 3^ear since, a friend sent me a chpping 
(several years old) from the Boston Herald, con- 
cerning "Little Lillith May Nutting, and the Floating 
Hospital". From which it appeared that Lillith, who 
has never walked, owing to infantile paralysis, had 
taken such an interest in the poor sick children for 
whom Boston provides the Floating Hospital, which 



228 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

takes them down the Bay for the sea-breezes, that with 
the aid of her mother she held a fair for the sale of 
fancy articles made mostly by her own hands, and 
donated the proceeds. 

Of course I was deeply interested, and took measures 
to get in touch with this young Clanswoman, whom I 
thought worthy of an honorable place in our Family 
History. As five years had passed, it was not easy, 
but I succeeded. 

A pleasant correspondence resulted in her sending 
at my request, the following account of the incident. 

"It was this way. Lying in my steamer-chair one 
day, I said 'I wish I had something new to do.'. .This 
set mother thinking, and made her feel badly; for I 
was not usually disconented, even if I did have to lie 
down most of the time. 

"She had been reading about the Floating Hospital, 
and the good it was doing. She told me about it, and 
said if I liked I could sew, and by and by give a fair, 
and let the proceeds go to help those poor sick children. 
I was delighted with the idea. 

"It took me a whole year to make things. I em- 
broidered twelve sofa-pillows, fifteen pin-cushions of 
all sizes and shapes, also picture-frames, table-covers, 
tray-cloths, and many other things now forgotten. 
Mother arranged these in a room, and Papa was so 
proud he would show them to all tlie callers. My 
friends added many things to be sold, and the cause 
l)eing so good, and I being as 'I was, it made a great 
sensation. It was in all the papers. We began to 
hope that we might get as much as fifty dollars. A 
lady showed me a piece of very fine work done by a 
man paralyzed from his waist down. We put that in, 



NINTH GENERATION 220 

and sent him half what we got for it, which was five 
dollars. That was a pleasant surprise for him. 

"The fair was held at our home. Three of the 
officers of the Floating Hospital were present, and 
bought some things. At the close of the fair, we gave 
The Hospital two hundred dollars. One hundred of 
that paid the expenses of one day's trip, and that day 
was 'Lillith Nutting Day'. The other hundred paid 
for a permanent bed, which became the 'Lillitli 
Nutting Bed'. 

"The next year we gave another fair, which brought 
in one hundred dollars. Then some body wanted to 
buy my bed on the Hospital, so we gave it up, and 
that brought another hundred for the work. But 
my name is on a tablet, where any one can see it." 

It seems to me that our family records show no more 
beautiful incident. In a way so helpless — yet so 
delightfully helpful. 

Starred Names, Ninth Generation 

I. Ch:of h 303 James Cole. 

i 183 John Gordon, i 184 Loyal Irving. 

II Ch: of h 223 Wilber Choate 8, William Stewart 7, 
Phineas 6, Oliver 5, *4, 3, 2, 1. m Emily M. Hildreth. 
of Townsend. 

i 185 Ellis Zachariah, m Mary B. Nason, 1S92. 
Aver. 

'Ch:k 27 Wendel Sereno, 1894. 

LVIII. Ch: of h 309 Grace, m Philip MOORE, 
Nova Scotia. 

i 186 Marion Hooper, 1903. i 187 Arrietta Duryea, 
1905. i 188 Lee Philip, 1907. 

LIX. Ch:ofh 313 Phebe Jane JONES. 

i 189 Lillian S. 



230 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

With sufficient time and research, it is certain that 
we could find enough Nuttings, of the Name and of the 
female lines, to add many pages to this Ninth Gener- 
ation, with respectable numbers of the Tenth, and a 
few of the Eleventh. But we have already waited 
far beyond our original intention, and to tell the truth, 
some of us who are advanced in life can hardly afford 
to delay longer. 

Despite all the care and pains bestowed, I cannot 
hope to have escaped all errors. As such errors will, 
as a rule, affect only those who discover them, I hope 
they will simply correct them in the copies they receive, 
and not too severely blame the compiler. No one who 
has not attempted an "endless genealogy" (as the 
Apostle rightly puts it) can imagine the frequent 
puzzles which present themselves in such a work, or 
the intricacy, sometimes, of their solution. Some 
questions which seemed hopeless, have been solved 
at last by some chance remark, coming from the most 
unexpected source. My task has been great and 
difficult, though delightful. 

I confess, I regret to part with all these 'cousins', 
with whom my work has made me acquainted. I 
know how a writer gets to love his characters, even 
when he has himself created them in fiction. Much 
more in this work, in which the individuals and fam- 
ilies are or have been not only real, but every one actual, 
however distant, relatives. I hope yet to meet some 
of them. If I were able to bear the expense, I would 
rather make a pilgrimage among you, good cousins, 
than to go to Europe a-la-millionaire. 

Is there any general characteristic of our Clan ? 

The Centennarian, in closing the Early Genealogy, 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CLAN 231 

decided that up to that date the family had been 
characterized by 

"Piety, and Ingenuity." 
After the lapse of another century, I find it less easy 
to decide. We have certainly furnished a large con- 
tingent for the church and the ministry. Had it 
seemed best, I might have noted the church-activities 
in many instances, instead of selecting such as seemed 
specially noteworthy. We have furnished a large 
number of ministers and missionaries. Our most 
distinguished representative in that line, was, at his 
death in this year, perhaps the most noted of American 
missionaries. His name will rank with the most 
renowned of history. 

We have contributed also an unusual number to 
the teacher's profession. College and University 
professors have been, and still are very numerous 
among us, while teachers of secondary schools seem to 
belong to most of our family lists. 

Many professional inventors have justified the 
Centennarian in his second item of characterization, — 
"Ingenuity". 

I venture to add, what I think a more general 
characteristic than perhaps either of those men- 
tioned, — 

Versatility. 

It seems the natural thing for us to do many things, 
with equal facility. One of my correspondents, 
responding to my own list of the small enterprises 
which occupy me, says the description "is very Nut- 
tingesque". He is himself a good instance, having 
a real eminence in at least three directions. 

Whether this is anything to congratulate ourselves 



232 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

on, is another thing. It is our peculiarity. Our 
distinguished missionary for example, was equally at 
home in medicine and surgery, in linguistics, in 
authorship, in evangelistic work, and in other important 
lines. The publisher of this work is a notable instance 
also. I think Versatility honestly belongs to us. 

I like to think that the issue of this work may tend 
to give us, as a Clan, a feeling of unity and solidarity. 
Let us feel that we, as a clan, have something to work 
for, and a certain reputation to preserve and make 
yet more honorable. 

That this may result, and that God may bless us, 
"every one", is the wish and hope of 

The Compiler. 



APPENDIX 

From "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the 

Revolution. Vol. XL" 

Nutting. (This name also appears under the form of Knuting, 
Nuting, Nutten, Nutton.) 

Nutting, — 1st Lieutenant, schooner "Friend" (privateer); 
petition dated Boston. Sept. 10, 1777, signed by Henry Newell, 
of Boston, asking that William Lawrence be commissioned as 
commander of said vessel; ordered in Council Sept. 11, 1777, that 
a commission be issued. 

Nutting, Abel (e 20, p. 81), Groton. Private, Capt. Asa 
Lawrence's co., Col. William Prescott's regt. ; muster roll dated 
Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 25, 1775; service, 3 mos. 8 days; also 
company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat 
or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge, Oct. 30, 1775; also, 
Private, Capt. John Porter's co.. Col. Samuel Denny's (2d) reg't.; 
enlisted Oct. 19, 1779; discharged Nov. 23, 1779; service, 1 mo. 
15 days, at Claverack, including 10 days (200 miles) travel home; 
regiment raised for 3 months. 

Nutting Amos, Concord. Private, Capt. Asahel Wheeler's 
CO., Col. John Robinson's regt.; marched Feb. 4 (year not given, 
probably 1776); service, 1 mo. 28 days; also, order on Deacon 
Jeffers, Paymaster to the Colony troops, payable to Col. Ephraim 
Jackson, dated Camp at Hull, July 10, 1776, signed by said 
Nutting and others belonging to Capt. Abishai Brown's co., Col. 
Whitney's regiment, for advance pay, travel allowance, etc. ; 
also petition dated Camp at Hull, Sept. 17, 1776, signed by said 
Nutting and others belonging to battalion stationed at Hull, 
asking for increase and payment of wages; also. Corporal Capt. 
Abishai Brown's co.. Col. Josiah Whitney's reg't.; enlisted May 



234 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

14. 1776, 4 days preceding march; service to Nov. 1, 1776, 5 mos. 
18 days; rolls dated Camp at Hull; also, Private Capt. Haffield 
White's CO., Col. Rufus Putnam's 4th (also given 5th) reg't.; 
Continental army pay accounts for service from Feb. 12, 1777, 
to Feb. 3, 1780; credited to town of Concord; also, same co. and 
reg't.; return dated Albany, Feb. 9, 1778; residence, Concord; 
mustered by Col. Barret; term', 3 years. 

Nutting, Benjamin, Pepperell. Private, Capt. John Nutting's 
CO. of Minutemen, Col. WiUiam Prescott's reg't., which marched 
on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 12 days; reported returned 
home; also. Sergeant Capt. Job Shattuck's co.. Col. Jonathan 
Read's reg't.; pay abstract for travel allowance, etc., from Sara- 
toga home, dated Groton, Jan. 26, 1777; 225 miles travel 
allowed said Nutting. 

Nutting, Charles. Private, in a company commanded by Capt. 
Josiah Harris, of Charlestown, Lieut. Col. Bond's (late Col. 
Gardner's) reg't.; list of men returned as made up from orders for 
bounty coats or money equivalent due for the 8 months service 
in 1775; said Nutting reported as having enHsted for Quebec, Sept. 
8, 1775. 

Nutting, Daniel, Dunstable. Private, Capt. Reuben Butterfield's 
CO. of militia, Col. David Green's reg., which marched on the alarm 
of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; left place of rendezvous April 
23, 1775, service, 4 days; also, Capt. Ebenezer Bancroft's co.. 
Col. Ebenezer Bridge's (27th) reg't.; receipt for advance pay, 
signed by said Nutting and others, dated Camp before Boston, 
July 24, 1775; also. Private, ''same co. and reg't. ; muster roll dated 
Aug. 1, 1775; enHsted May 4, 1775; service, 3 mos. 5 days; also, 
order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Nov. 4, 
1775; also, account dated Dec. 11, 1775, of articles lost in battle 
of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775; amounts allowed in House of 
Representatives June 24, 1775. 



REVOLUTIONARY RECORD 235 

Nutting, David, Boston (also given Bennington). Capt. John 
Wentworth's co., Col. Aaron Willard's reg't.; pay abstract for 
travel allowance from home to Bennington, dated Boston, Jan. 6, 
1777; 182 miles travel allowed said Nutting; also, return of men 
raised to serve in the Continental Army from Capt. Peter Pen- 
iman's (3d Mendon) co. ; residence, Boston; engaged for town of 
Mendon; joined Capt. Allen's co.. Col. Alden's reg't.; term to 
expire Oct.-, 1780; also, list of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber, 
Muster Master for Suffolk Co., dated Boston, Dec. 12, 1777; Capt. 
Allen's CO., Col. Alden's reg't.; also, Sergeant, 6th co.. Col. Brook's 
reg't.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Sept. 1, 
1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; residence, Bennington; credited to town 
of Mendon; also, Capt. Robert Allen's co., Col. Ichabod Alden's 
reg't.; return endorsed "1778"; mustered by County Muster 
Master Barber and by a Continnental Muster Master; also, Lieut. 
Jonas Parker's co., (late) Col. Ichabod Alden's reg't.; muster roll 
for Dec. 1778, dated Cherry Valley; appointed May 16 (year not 
given) ; term, 3 years; reported furloughed Dec. 26, 1778, for 16 
days; also, (late) Colonel's co. commanded by Capt. Lieut. Jonas 
Parker, 6th Mass. reg't. formerly commanded by Col. Ichabod 
Alden; muster roll for March and April, 1779, dated Fort "Hark- 
emer"; appointed March 16 (year not given) ; also, Capt. Parker's 
CO., Col. Brook's reg't.; Continental Army pay accounts for 
service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Sept. 1, 1780. 

Nutting, David, Brookline. Private, Capt. Thomas White's 
(Brookline) co. of militia, Col. William Heath's reg't., which 
marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 7 days; reported 
enlisted into the army; also, Capt. Timothy Corey's co., Col. 
Gerrish's reg't. ; receipt for advance pay, signed by said Nutting 
and others, dated June 12, 1775; also. Private, Capt. Timothy 
Corey's (7th) co., Lieut. Col. Loammi Baldwin's (late Col. Ger- 
rish's) 38th reg't.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 
26, 1775; service, 3 mos. 7 days; also, company return dated 



236 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Sewall's Point, Sept. 27, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its 
equivalent in money dated Camp at Sewall's Point, Dec. 30, 1775 
also. Sergeant, Capt. Hopestill Hall's co., Col. Lemuel Robinson's 
reg't.; engaged Jan. 31, 1776; service, to time of marching 21 
days; roll dated Roxbury; also, pay roll for same service dated 
Dorchester. 

Nutting, David, Conway. Certificate dated Camp at Cam- 
bridge, June 18, 1775, signed by (Capt.) Seth Murray, certifying 
that said Nutting and others belonging to his company, Col. 
Woodbridge's reg't., were in need of cartridge boxes for which 
he promised to be accountable; also, Capt. Seth Murray's co., 
Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's reg't. ; receipt for advance 
pay, signed by said Nutting and others, dated Cambridge, June 
29, 1775; also. Private, same co. and reg't. ; muster roll dated Aug. 
1, 1775; enlisted May 10, 1775; service, 2 mos. 27 days; also, com- 
pany return dated Prospect Hill, Sept. 30, 1775; also, order for 
bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Camp Cambridge, 
Oct. 25, 1775. 

Nutting, Ebenezer, Pepperell. Private, Capt. John Nutting's 
CO. of Minutemen, Col. William Prescott's reg't, which marched 
on the Alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 6 days; also, Corporal, 
Capt. John Nutting's co.. Col. William Prescott's (10th) reg't: 
muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 25, 1775; service, 
3 mos. 8 days; also, company return dated Cambridge, Oct. 2, 
1775. 

Nutting, Ebenezer, Salem. Private, Capt. Joseph Hiller's co.. 
Col. Jonathan Titcomb's reg't. ; arrived at destination on May 0, 
1777; discharged July 6, 1777; service, 2 mos. 6 days, at Rhode 
Island, including 3 days (65 miles) travel home. Roll dated 
Camp at Providence. 

Nutting, Ebenezer. Private, Capt. John Porter's co.. Col. 
Cyprian How's reg't., Lieut. Col. Commandant John Jacob's 



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brigade; enlisted July 30, 17S0; discharged Oct. 30, 17S(); service, 
3 mos. 5 days, at Rhode Island, including travel (80 miles) home; 
regiment raised for 3 months. 

Nutting, Eleazer, Pepperell. List of 6 months men raised 
agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780, returned as received of Maj. 
Joseph Hosmer, Superintendent of Middlesex Co. by Justin Ely, 
Commissioner, dated Springfield; also, descriptive list of men 
raised to reinforce the Continental Army for the term of 6 
months, agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780, returned as received 
of Justin Ely, Commissioner, by Brig. Gen. John Glover, at 
Springfield, July 8, 1780; age 19 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 5 in.; com- 
plexion, dark; engaged for town of Pepperell; marched to camp 
July 8, 1780, under command of Ebenezer Kent, Esq.; also, 
list of men raised for the 6 months service and returned by Brig. 
.Gen. Paterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp 
Totoway, Oct. 25, 1780; also, pay roll for 6 months men raised by 
the town of Pepperell for service in the Continental Army during 
1780; marched to camp July 4, 1780; discharged Jan. 8, 1781; 
service, 6 mos. 15 days, including travel (220 miles) home. 

Nutting, Eleazer. Private, Capt. Joseph Boynton's co.. Col. 
Nathaniel Wade's reg't. ; enlisted July 1, 1778; service to Jan. 1, 
1779, 6 mos. 6 days, at Rhode Island, including travel (100 
miles) home; also, same co. and reg't.; muster roll dated East 
Greenwich, Sept. 17, 1778; reported on furlough; also, muster 
roll dated North Kingston, Nov. 6, 1778; also same co. and reg't., 
muster rolls sworn to at East Greenwich, Sept. 28, Nov. 12 and 
Dec. 29, 1778; enlistment to expire Jan. 1, 1779. 

Nutting, Elijah. Receipt dated Groton, April 6, 1781, for 
bounty paid said Nutting by Class No. 15 of- the town of Groton 
to serve in the Continental Army for the term of 3 years ; also, 
descriptive list of men raised in Middlesex Co., agreeable to 
resolve of Dec. 2, 1780, as returned by Joseph Hosmer, Super- 
intendent for said county; age, 17 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 8 in.; com- 



238 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

plexion, light; hair, light; eyes, light (also given dark) ; occupation 
farmer; engaged for town of Groton; engaged, March 22, 1781; 
term, 3 years; also, Private, Capt. Abel Holden's co., commanded 
by Capt. Mason Wottles subsequent to May 1, 1781, Lieut. Col. 
Calvin Smith's (6th) reg't.; return for wages for the year 1781; 
wages allowed said Nutting from March 29, 1781, to Dec. 31, 1781, 
9 mos, 3 days; reported sick in hospital in Oct. and Nov. 1781; 
also, Capt. Mason Wottles's co., Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith's reg't.; 
return for wages for the year 1782; wages allowed said Nutting 
from Jan. 1, 1782, to June 1, 1782, 5 mos.; reported sick in hos- 
pital in Jan. and Feb. 17S2, transferred to invalids June 1 (also 
given June 21), 1782. 

Nutting, Ephraim, Groton. Private, Capt. Asa Lawrence's 
CO., Col. William Prescott's reg't. ; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; 
enlisted April 25, 1775; service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, company 
return dated Oct. 6, 1775; reported absent; a/50, order for bounty 
coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge, Oct. 30, 1775; 
also, list of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from 
Capt. Blood's CO., Col. Jonathan Reed's (6th Middlesex Co.) reg't., 
as returned to Brig. Gen. Prescott, dated Littleton, Sept. 17, 
1777; residence, Groton; engaged for town of Groton; term, 8 
months; reported drafted, not mustered. 

Nutting, Ezekiel, Groton. Private, Capt. Josiah Sartell's co., 
which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to headquarters at 
Cambridge; service, 9 days. 

Nutting, Ezekiel, Groton. Private, Capt. Asa Lawrence's co. 
of Minute-men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to 
headquarters at Cambridge; service, 6 days; reported enlisted into 
the army; also, Capt. Asa Lawrence's co.. Col. William Prescott's 
reg't.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 25, 1775; 
service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; 
also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated 
Cambrdge, Oct. 30, 1775. 



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Nutting, Ezekiel. Account showing sums of money to be paid 
from the pubhc treasury to sundry persons for losses sustained at 
battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill; amounts allowed in Council 
June L3, 1776. 

Nutting, Ezekiel. Private, Capt. Aaron Jewett's co., Col. 
Samuel Bullard's reg't., enlisted Aug. 15, 1777; discharged Nov. 
29, 1777; service, 3 mos. 15 days, with Northern army; company 
marched to Saratoga. Roll dated Littleton. 

Nutting, Isaac, Groton. Private, Capt. Asa Lawrence's co. of 
Minute-men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to 
headquarters at Cambridge; service, 14 days. 

Nutting, Jacob. List of men raised in Middlesex Co., agree- 
able to resolve of June 9, 1779. as returned by Joseph Hosmer, 
Superintendent, Nov. 24, 1779; engaged for town of Westford. 

Nutting, John (e 34, p. 87), Pepperell. Captain of a com- 
pany of Minutemen, Col. William Prescott's reg't., which marched 
on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 6 days; also, commun- 
ication dated Cambridge, May 25, 1775, signed by said Nutting 
and others, captains in Col. Prescott's reg't., stating their approv- 
al of William Prescott, John Robinson, and Henry Woods, as 
Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, and Major, respectively, of said 
regiment, and asking that they be commissioned; also, Captain, 
Col. William Prescott's reg't.; return of officers, dated May 25, 
1775; ordered in Provincial Congress May 26, 1775, that said 
officers be commissioned; also, certificates dated Cambridge, May 
29, 1775, signed by William Green, Adjutant, certifying that said 
Nutting and others were officers in Col. William Prescott's reg't.; 
receipt for commissions of said officers signed by John Robinson ; 
also, Captain, Col. Prescott's (10th) reg't.; muster roll dated Aug. 
1, 1775; engaged April 25, 1775; service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, com- 
pany return dated Cambridge, Oct. 2, 1775; also, memorandum 
of fire-locks received of sundry officers and soldiers; date of de- 



240 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

livery Jan. 15, 1776; also, order on Henry Gardner, Treas- 
urer, payable to Captain Edmund Bancroft, dated at Pep- 
perell, April 22, 1777, signed by said Nutting, for money due 
for losses sustained at Bunker Hill; also, Captain, 11th co.,. . 6th 
Middlesex Co. reg't. of Mass. militia; list of officers; commissioned 
April 9, 1778; also. Captain Col. William Mclntash's (Mcintosh's) 
reg't., Gen. Lovel's brigade; engaged July 30, 1778; discharged 
Sept. 12, 1778, service, 1 mo. 17 days, on expedition to Rhode 
Island, including 4 days (80 miles) travel home; also, petition 
addressed to the Council, dated Pepperell, Sept. 31 (30), 1779 
signed by Joseph Shed and others, of Pepperell, belonging to said 
Nutting's CO., stating that they marched to Rhode Island, joined 
the army under Gen. Sulivan in the expedition against Newport 
in Aug., 1778, and continued in service at Rhode Island for 
the term of 6 weeks under said Nutting, and asking that he be 
directed to make up a roll for their State pay which they had not 
received; petition granted and resolve passed thereon Nov. 26, 
1779. 

Nutting John, (d 49, p. 75), Westford (also given Fitchburg). 
Private, Capt. Timothy Underwood's co.. Col. William Prescott's 
reg't. of Minute-men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 
1775; service, 9 days; also, Capt. Jonathan Minott's co., Col. 
Baldwin's reg't.; pay abstract for mileage from home to head- 
quarters and return, dated Cambridge, Jan. 12, 1776; mileage 
for 52 miles allowed said Nutting ; also, list of men raised to serve 
in the Continental Army from Capt. Wright's co.. Col. Jonathan 
Reed's (6th Middlesex Co.) reg't., as returned to Brig. Gen. 
Prescott; residence, Westford; engaged for town of Westford; 
joined Capt. Ballard's co., Col. Alden's reg't.; term 3 years, to 
expire in 1780; also, Private, Capt. William Hudson Ballard's co., 
Col. John Brook's reg't.; Continental Army pay accounts for 
service from June 20, 1777, to Dec. 25, 1777; residence, Fitch- 
burg; reported deceased; also, Capt, William Hudson Ballard's 



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CO., 6th Mass. reg't. formerly commanded by Col. Ichabod Alden, 
return of men who were in camp on or before Aug. 15, 1777; also, 
Capt. Ballard's co., Col. Ichabod Alden's reg't,; return dated 
Albany, Jan. 12, 1778; residence, Westford; enHsted for town of 
Fitchburg; mustered by Col. Barrett, Muster Master for Middle- 
sex Co., and by a Continental Muster Master; also, Istco., Lieut 
Col. John Brook's (7th) reg't.; return made up to Dec. 31, 1779; 
enlisted June 20, 1777; reported died Dec. 25, 1777. 

Nutting, John. Matross, Capt. Edward Fettyplace's (Mar- 
blehead) co,; enlisted Feb. 22, 1776; service to Sept. 1, 1776, 6 
mos. 8 days, in defence of seacoast. 

Nutting, John. Private, brigantine "Massachusetts", com- 
manded by Capt. Daniel Souther; engaged Aug. 17, 1776; dis- 
charged Dec. 21, 1776; service, 4 mos. 4 days; also, Seaman, 
brigantine "Massachusetts", commanded by Capt. John Fisk; 
pay abstract for advance wages for 1 month, dated Salem, 
March 17, 1777; also, same vessel and commander; engaged Feb. 
17, 1777; discharged July 31, 1777; service. 5 mos. 14 days; roll 
sworn to at Boston; also, same vessel and commander; engaged 
July 31, 1777; discharged Oct. 16, 1777; roll dated Boston. 

Nutting, John. 2d Mate, ship "Union", Richard James, 
Master, bound on voyage from Falmouth to France; portage 
bill made up for advance pay for 1 month, dated Boston; en- 
gaged Dec. 2 (1777). 

Nutting, John (e 58, p. 89). Descriptive list of men raised 
in Hampshire Co. to serve in the Continental Army for the term 
of 9 months, agreeable to resolve of June 9, 1779, as returned by 
Noah Goodman, Superintendent; Capt. Cook's co., Col. Chapin's 
reg't.; age, 17 yrs; stature, 5 ft. 4 in.; hair, black; engaged for 
town of Northampton. 

Nutting, John. Descriptive list of the officers and crew of the 



242 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

ship "Aurora" (privateer), commanded by Capt. David Porter, 
dated Boston, June 16, 1781; age IS yrs.; stature, 5 ft., 6 in. 

Nutting, John, Jr., Groton. Private, Capt. Josiah Sartell's 
CO., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to head- 
quarters at Cambridge; service, 12 days; also, list of men raised 
to serve in the Continental Army from Col. Jonathan Reed's 
(6th Middlesex Co.) reg't., dated Littleton, Dec. 2, 1777; residence 
Groton; engaged for town of Groton; joined Capt. Brown's co., 
Col. Jackson's reg't.; term, 3 years; also, account dated West- 
ford, June 19, 1781, rendered by the Selectmen, of bounties paid 
said Nutting and others raised to serve in the Continental 
Army for the term of 3 years, agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, 1780; 
said Nutting reported as having been engaged by Class No. 8, of 
which Leonard Procter and others were members, as having been 
paid £45, and to receive £45 additional on condition that he serve 
the full term of 3 years; also, descriptive list of men raised in 
Middlesex Co., agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, 1780, as returned by 
Joseph Hosmer, Superintendent for said County; age 42 yrs.; 
stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, light; hair, light; eyes, light 
(also given dark) ; occupation, farmer (also given laborer) ; en- 
gaged for town of Groton (also given Westford) ; engaged April 
26, 1781; term, 3 years. 

Nutting, Jonathan, Boston. List of prisoners exchanged at 
Rhode Island and delivered to John Ayres, as returned by M. 
Reed, Secretary, dated Newport, Feb. 11, 1777; residence, 
Boston; reported a Steward. 

Nutting, Jonathan, Groton. Private, Capt. Asa Lawrence's 
CO. of Minute-men, which marcli«d on the alarm of April 19, 1775, 
to headquarters at Cambridge; service, 15 days. 

Nutting, Jonathan, Reading. List of prisoners belonging to 
the town of Reading who were on board the sloop "Wolf" (a 
privateer) and were carried to New York (year not given), 



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Nutting, Jonathan. Private, Capt. Joshua Parker's co., Col 
Robinson's reg't.; enlisted Aug. 2, 1777; service to Jan. 1, 1778, 
at Rhode Island. 

Nutting, Jonathan. Private, Capt. Thomas Starret's detach- 
ment from Col. Mason Wheaton's reg't.; service from June 28, 
1779, to July 5, 1779, 8 days, at Camden, Eastern department; 
also, Capt. PhiHp M. Ulmer's co., Col. Samuel McCobb's reg't.; 
service from July S. 1779, to Sept. 24, 1779, 2 mos. 16 days, on 
Penobscot expedition. 

Nutting, Jonathan. Corporal, Capt. Joshua Lealand's co. of 
guards; engaged Oct. 4. 1779; discharged Nov. 10, 1779; service, 
1 mo. 7 days; company detached from militia by order of Gen. 
Hancock to man forts at and about Boston until Nov. 10, 1779, 
and stationed at Boston under Maj. Nathaniel Heath. 

Nutting, Jonathan. Petition dated Boston, April 24, 1780, 
signed by Nutting & Woodward, of Boston, asking that said 
Nutting be commissioned as commander of the brigantine 
"Victory" (privateer); ordered in Council April 25, 1780, that a 
commission be issued. 

Nutting, Joseph, Groton. List of men raised to serve in the 
Continental Army from Col. Jonathan Reed's (6th Middlesex 
Co.) reg't.; residence, Groton; engaged for town of Groton; 
joined Capt. Brown's co.. Col. Jackson's reg't.; term, 3 years; also, 
Private, Capt. Brown's co.. Col. Michael Jackson's reg't.; Con- 
tinnental Army pay accounts for service from Sept. 1, 1777, to 
Dec. 31, 1779; also, Capt. Hartshorn's co.. Col. Jackson's reg't.; 
Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, 
to Dec. 31, 1780; also, descriptive list dated Jan. -, 1781; Capt. 
T. Hartshorn's (4th) co., 8th Mass. reg't. commanded by Col. 
Michael Jackson; rank. Private; age, 19 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 4 in.; 
complexion, light; hair, light; occupation, farmer; birthplace, 
Groton; residence, Groton; enlisted Oct. 23, 1779, by ensign Joel 
Jenkins, at West Point; enlistment, during war. 



244 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Nutting, Josiah, Pepperell. Private, Capt. John Nutting's 
CO. of Minute-men. Col. William Prescott's reg't., which marched 
on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 12 days; reported re- 
turned home. 

Nutting, Nathaniel. Private, in a Concord co., commanded by 
Lieut. Ephraim Wheeler, Col. Eleazer Brooks' reg't.; service, 6 
days; company marched to Roxbury March 4, 1776, to reinforce 
Continental Army near Boston. 

Nutting, Nathaniel. Lists of men appearing under the heading 
"Hartwell Brook the first Everidge;" said Nutting appears among 
men in a detachment with Col. Thatcher (year not given). 

Nutting, Robert. List of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber, 
Muster Master for Suffolk Co., dated Boston, April 13, 1777; 
Capt. Pope's CO., Col. Shepard's reg't.; a/50. Private, Capt. Isaac 
Pope's CO., Col. William Shepard's reg't.; Continental Army pay 
accounts for service from April 2, 1777, to Oct. 23, 1777; reported 
died Oct. 23, 1777. 

Nutting, Samuel (d 61, p. 75), Danvers. Surgeon, brigan- 
tine, "Independence", commanded by Capt. Simeon Samson; 
engaged May 10, 1776; service to Sept. 22, 1776, 4 mos. 12 days; 
roll dated Plymouth; also, same vessel and coinmantler; engaged 
Sept. 23, 1776; service, to Jan. 1, 1777, 3 mos. 8 days; also, same 
vessel and commander; engaged Jan. 1, 1777; service, to July 5, 
1777, 6 mos. 5 days; also, list of prisoners sent from port of Hali- 
fax by order of Sir George Collier June 28, 1777, to be exchanged 
for British prisoners, as returned by John Emerson, Commissary; 
said Nutting, a surgeon, reported as having been taken in the 
privateer "Independence"; also, Surgeon, ship "Rhodes," com- 
manded by Capt. Nehemiah Buffinton; descriptive list of officers 
and crew, sworn to Aug. 14, 1780; age, 38 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 8 in.; 
complexion, light; residence, Danvers; also. Surgeon, Lieut. Col. 
Joseph Webb's reg't.; detached Aug. 16, 1781; discharged Dec. 



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2, 1781; service, 3 mos. 27 days, including 11 days (220 miles) 
travel home; regiment raised to reinforce Continnental Army for 
3 months and stationed at Peekskill. 

Nutting, Samuel (d 57, p. 75?), Pepperell. Private, Capt. 
John Nutting's co. of Minute-men, Col. William Prescott's reg't., 
which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 6 days; 
also, Capt. John Nutting's co., Col. William Prescott's reg't.; 
muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 25, 1775; service, 
3 mos. 8 days; also, company return dated Cambridge, Oct. 2, 
1775; also, Capt. Nutting's co., Col. William Mclntash's (Mcin- 
tosh's) reg't.. Gen. Lovel's brigade; enlisted July 30, 1778; 
discharged Sept. 12, 1778; ser-vice, 1 mo. 17 days, on expedition 
to Rhode Island, including 4 days (80 miles) travel home; also, 
list of men raised agreeable to resolve of June 9, 1779, as returned 
by Joseph Hosmer, Superintendent for said county; also, descrip- 
tive list of men raised in Middlesex Co., as returned by Brig. Gen. 
Eleazer Brooks to Maj. Hosmer, dated Lincoln, Aug. 18, 1779; 
Col. Reed's reg't.; age, 23yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, 
dark; residence, Pepperell; engaged for town of Pepperell; re- 
ported delivered to Lieut. J. Grace; also, petition addressed to 
the Council, dated Pepperell Sept. 31 (30), 1779, signed by said 
Nutting and others, of Pepperell, stating that they marched to 
Rhode Island, joined army under Gen. Sulivan in the expedition 
against Newport in Aug., 1778, and continued in service at Rhode 
Island for the term of 6 weeks under said Capt. John Nutting, 
and asking that said Capt. Nutting be directed to make up a roll 
for their State pay which they had not received; petition granted 
and resolve passed thereon Nov. 26, 1779. 

Nutting, Samuel, Weston. Drummer, Capt. Samuel Lamson's 
CO. of militia, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; 
service, 3 days ; also, list of men drafted, or those secured in their 
stead, comprising one-sixth part of the militia of the town of 
Weston, as returned by Capt. Jonathan Fisk, dated Weston, Aug. 
18, 1777. 



246 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Nutting, Samuel. Private, Capt. George Minot's co., Col. 
Samuel Bullard's reg't.; enlisted Aug. 16, 1777; discharged Oct. 
20, 1777; service, 2 mos. 14 days, in Northern department, in- 
cluding 9 days (180 miles) travel home. 

Nutting, Samuel. Private, Capt. Aaron Jewett's co., Col. 
Samuel Bullard's reg't.; enlisted Aug. 15, 1777; discharged Nov. 
29, 1777; service, 3 mos. 15 days, with Northern army; company 
marched to Saratoga. Roll dated Littleton. 

Nutting, Thomas, Conway. Private, Capt. Robert Oliver's 
CO. of Minute-men, Col. Samuel Williams' reg't., which marched 
April 22, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 
5 days; also, Capt. Joshua Parker's co., Col. William Prescott's 
(10th) reg't.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 26, 
1775; service, 97 days; also, company return dated Sept. 27, 1775; 
reported entered service April 21, 1775; also, order for bounty 
coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge, Nov. 1, 1775. 

Nutting, Thomas, Westford. Order on Deacon Jeffers, Pay- 
master to the Colony troops, payable to Col. Ephraim Jackson, 
dated Camp at Hull, July 10, 1776, signed by said Nutting and 
others belonging to Capt. Abishai Brown's co., Col. Whitney's 
reg't., for advance pay, blanket money, etc.; also, petition dated 
Camp at Hull, Sept. 17, 1776, signed by said Nutting and others 
belonging to battalion stationed at Hull, asking for increase and 
payment of wages; also. Private, Capt. Abishai Brown's co., Col. 
Josiah Whitney's reg't,; enlisted May 26, 1776, 4 days preceding 
march; service, to Dec. 1, 1776, 6 mos. 9 days; rolls dated Camp 
at Hull. 

Nutting, Thomas, Westford. Private, Capt. William Hudson 
Ballard's co.. Col. John Brooks's reg't.; Continental Army pay 
accounts for service from June 20, 1777, to Dec. 7, 1777; reported 
deceased; also, Capt. Ballard's co., 6th Mass. reg't. formerly 
commanded by Col. Ichabod Alden; return of men who were in 



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camp on or before Aug. 15, 1777; also, Capt. Ballard's co., Col. 
Ichabod Alden's reg't.; return dated Albany, Jan. 12, 1778; 
residence, Westford; enlisted for the town of Westford; mustered 
by Col. Barrett, Muster Master for Middlesex Co., and by a Con- 
tinnental Muster Master; also, 1st co., Lieut. Col. John Brooks' 
(7th) reg't.; return made up to Dec. 31, 1779; enlisted May 28, 
1777; enlistment, 3 years; reported died Dec. 7 (also given Dec. 
1), 1777. 

Nutting, Thomas, Westford (probably) . List of nine months 
men mustered by Thomas Newhall, Muster Master for Worcester 
Co.; Capt. Fisher's co.. Col. Cushing's reg't.; engaged for town of 
Westborough; mustered July 21, 1779; also, descriptive list of 
men raised for Continental service, as returned by Seth Washburn, 
Superintendent for Worcester Co.; Capt. Fletcher's co.. Col. Reed's 
reg't.; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, light; resi- 
dence, Westford (probably) ; engaged for town of Westborough 
marched July 26, 1779; reported delivered to Ensign Clarke 
also, Maj. Keith's co., Col. Michael Jackson's (8th) reg't. 
entered service July 28, 1779; discharged April 28, 1780; term, 
9 months. 

Nutting, Thomas. Private, Capt. Reuben Butterfield's co., 
enlisted Dec. 16, 1776; discharged March 16, 1777; service, 105 
days, including 15 days (300 miles) travel home. 

Nutting, Thomas. Private, Capt. Asa Lawrence's co. of 
volunteers. Col. Jonathan Reed's reg't.; entered service Sept. 26, 
1777; discharged Nov. 9, 1777; service, 1 mo. 15 days, at the 
Northward, including travel home; company raised in Littleton 
and Westford and marched to assist army under Gen. Gates. 

Nutting, Thomas. Receipt dated Boston, April 11, 1782, for 
bounty paid to said Nutting by Lieut. James King, Chairman of 
Class No. L of the town of Littleton, to serve in the Continental 
Army for the term of 3 years. 



248 NUTTING GENEALOGY 

Nutting, Thomas, Jr. Private, Capt. Reuben Butterfield's 
CO.; enlisted Dec. lb, 1776; discharged March 16, 1777; service, 
105 days including 15 days (300 miles) travel home. 

Nutting, William (e 28, p. 82), Groton. Corporal, Capt. Asa 
Lawrence's co. of Minute-men, which marched on the alarm of 
April 19, 1775, to headquarters at Cambridge; service, 21 days. 

Nutting, William, Marblehead. Capt. Joel Smith's (4th) co., 
Col. John Glover's (21st) reg't.; receipt for advance pay, signed 
by said Nutting and others, dated Cambridge, July 28, 1775; 
also, Private, same co. and reg't.; company return (probably 
Oct., 1775) ; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money 
dated Camp at Cambridge, Dec. 30, 1775; also, Matross, Capt. 
Edward Fettyplace's (Marblehead) co.; enlisted Feb. 20, 1776; 
service to Jan. 1, 1777, 10 mos. 10 days, in defence of seacoast. 

Nutting, William. Private, Capt. Asa Lawrence's co. of 
volunteers. Col. Jonathan Reed's reg't.; entered service Sept. 27, 
1777,; discharged Nov. 9, 1777; service, 1 mo. 14 days, at the 
Northward, including travel home; company raised in Littleton 
and Westford and marched to assist army under Gen. Gates. 



PLACE INDEX 



Alabama Indiana 

Montgomery 175 Indianapolis 136, 137 

California 196 224 

Berkley 156, 160, 170 Misha'waka 127 



172, 211, 215 
Etna 198 
Fresno 171, 215 
Healdsburg 170 
Laton 189 
Los Angeles 152 
Oakland 107, 149 
San Francisco 156,215 
Yolo 95, 115 

Colorado 

Colorado Springs 160 
Denver 143, 179, 200 

Connecticut 

Hartford 103,176,179 
New Haven 158, 184 

221 
Plymouth 151 
Southbnry 167-8, 227 
Warehouse Point 152 

District of Columbia 
Washington 163, 171 
190, 197 

Florida 

Auburndale 133-5 
Point Maximo 188 
St. Petersburg 188 

Georgia 

Atlanta 143, 198 
Barnesville 143 
Jeffersonville 198 
Macon 142, 197, 198 

Illinois 

Carlinville 136 
Chicago 157, 159, 195 
Elgin 131, 154 
Jacksonville 136, 137 
Oak Park 214 
Peoria 137 

Rockford 107, 170, 171 
Urbana 195, 224 
Wheaton 130, 174 



Richmond 153 
Iowa 

Ames 142, 188, 194 

Anamosa 116 

Batavia 199 

Bradford 187-9 

Cedar Falls 193 

Charles City 188 

Davenport 164 

Dyersville 189 

Gaza 133 

Glenwood 193, 194, 
199 

Grinnell 157, 209 

Hamburg 195, 224 

Indianola 110, 152 

Iowa City 195 

Lacona 153 

Mason City 114, 187 

Mills 199 

Milo 153 

Nashua 103 

Osage 188 

Polk City 133 

Poweshiek county 164 

Scott county 163 

Tabor 133 
Kansas 

Fort Scott 162 

Hiawatha 132 

Kansas City 195, 196 

Kentucky Ridge 132 

Lawrence 129 

Reserve 190 

Russell 199 

Wakarusa 129 
Kentucky 

Bowling Green 132, 
190 

Louisville 158 

Newport 172 



Maine 

Augusta 116, 107 
Lewiston 107, 210 
Lisbon 81, 96, 116,210 
Litchfield 163 
Norridgewock 73, 87, 

107, 149, 210 
Otisfield 78, 94, 113, 

156 
Portland 210 
Thomaston 69, 75, 210 
Maryland 

Baltimore 144 
Massachusetts 
AUston 210 
Amherst 110, 153, 205 

206, 226 
Ashburnham 
Attleboro 69 
Ayer 170, 187, 229 
Baddycook 33, 51 
Beverly 106, 148 
Boston 142, 146, 152, 

155, 176, 208, 227 
Brimfield 108, 150 
Cambridge 75 
Canton 210 
Chelmsford 10, 41-46, 

56,95, 115 
Chicopee 175 
Concord 76, 96, 116, 

158 
Danvers 75 
Dedham 203 
Deerfield 158 
Dorchester 210, 



73 



221. 



227 



Enfield 109, 150 
Fitchburg 127, 145 

183, 225 
Gibbet hill 27-30 
Gloucester 09 
Granby 152, 205, 208, 

220 
Graniteville 46 



250 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Greenfield 158 
Groton 16, 26-39, 42- 

60, 124, 183, 222 

ancestry 70 

graveyard 31, 32 

inn 30, 99 

school 39 
Hanover 158 
Harvard 128 
Hatfield 110 
Haverhill 120, 129, 

176 
Hollingsworth'sbridge 

180 
Holliston 131 
Ipswich 57 
Lawrence 176 
Leominster 206 
Leverett 108. 150, 151 
Lowell 201 
Lunenburg 163 
Maiden 73 
Marblehead 69 
Massapoag 33 
Medford 69. 165 
Middleboro 98 
Mount Vernon 160 
Nantucket 203 
Nashua river 26-38 
Naumux 33, 49, 50 
Newbury port 158 
Nod Farm 127, 183 
Northampton 89, 111 

206 
North Brookfield 150 
Palmer 87, 107, 108 

150 
Paugus 167 
Petapaug 26, 42 
Plymouth 98 
Quaboag river 88 
Quincy 165, 212, 213 
Quinsigamond 201 
Rock Bottom 167 
Salem 69, 106, 107 

148, 203, 204 
Shelburne Falls 152 
South Amherst 110 
South Boston 190 
South Hadley 120 



Springfield 151, 153, 
176 

Townsend 229 
Tyngsboro 188 
Upton 98 
Waltham 146, 197 
Westford 46, 68, 79 

106, 115, 155, 206 

cemetery 80 
West Springfield 208 
Winchendon 116 
Woburn40, 43, 58, 61 
Worcester 150, 212 

226 
Wrentham 69, 75 
Michigan 

Armada 116 
Benzonia 131, 174 

216 
Decatur 110, 150 
Detroit 136 
Flint 137 

Kalamazoo 128, 184 
Otsego 184 
Vicksburg 219 
Weldon 216 
Minnesota 
Austin 171 
Clear Lake 129 
Faribault 111, 154, 

206 
Minneapolis 170, 186 
Northfield HI 
St. Paul 167, 188, 189 
Spring Valley 143 

Missouri 

Greenwood 195 

St. Joseph 203 

St. Louis 172 
Montana 

Bozeman 151, 195,204 

Laurel 205 
Nebraska 

Crete 188 

Omaha 225 
New Hampshire 

Claremont 73, 103 

East Derry 190 

Greenville 145 



Hinsdale 131, 190 

Jaffrey 106, 157 

Marlboro 148 

Mason 91 

Nashua 114 

New Ipswich 104, 116, 
146 

Orford 131 

Piermont 75 

Plymouth 75, 96 
New Jersey 

Hoboken 139 

Jersey City 148 

Montclair 149 

Morristown 204 

Newark 167 

New Brunswick 197 

Paterson 203, 226 
New York 

Brooklyn 106, 107, 

159, 190, 210 
Buffalo 197 
Catskill 101 
Darien 88 
Easton 114, 163 
Geneva 175 
Governor's island 160 
Henderson 89, 91, 105 
Johnstown 159 
New York 144, 151, 

160, 175, 226 
Nutten's island 17 
Nutting Hill 113 
Ogdensburg 209 
Oneida 95, 109, 115 
Onondaga Hill 158 
Oswego 167 
Parish 113 
Pelham 175 
Pembroke 143 
Phoenix 162 
Randolph 108 
Rochester 219 
Sag Harbor 129 
Schaghticoke 114, 163 
Syracuse 91, 113, 162, 

184, 199, 219 
Troy 95, 114, 203 
Watertown 199 
West Monroe 93, 113 
Whitehall 184 



PLACE INDEX 



251 



North Carolina 

Black Mountain 118, 
175 
North Dakota 

Hannah 171 

Moscow 170 

St. John's 213 
Ohio 

Akron 111 

Atwater 179 

Austinburg 133 

Canfield 180 

Celina 200 

Chandlersville 133 

Cleveland 107, 171 
174, 216 

Collamer 141 

Columbus 189 

Dayton 189 

Geneva 108, 150 

Hudson 102, 117, 129 
141, 142 

Kent 153 

Massillon 107, 149 

Mentor 174 

Oberlin 172 

Oxford 180 

Youngstown 180 
Oklahoma 

Edmond 187, 189 

Lawton 196 
Oregon 

Albany 200 

Dufor 202 

Portland 115 
Pennsylvania 

Cerro de Pasco 211 

Corry 109 

Erie 108 

Gettysburg 183 

Lebanon 114 
Oil City 150 
Rixford 112 
Rhode Island 
Howard 157 



State prison 158 
Tennessee 

Nashville 194 
Texas 

Dalhart 193 
Utah 

Salt Lake City 172, 
196, 224 

Vermont 

Andover 105 
Bakersfield 106, 157 
Bellows Falls 117 
Bennington 107 
Berkshire 106, 157 
Brattleboro 117, 179 
Cavendish 105 
Danville 103, 143 
Dummerston 129 
Fairport 172 
Michford 76, 104 
Montpelier 117 
New Haven 95, 1 14 
Perkinsville 78, 145 
Pomfret 103 
Randolph Centre 97 
101, 130, 132, 175 
176, 183, 187 
Reading 104, 105 
Springfield 78,93. 113 
Stowe 103 
Weathersfield 86 
Westminster 104, 157 

199, 209 
Weston 116 
Whiting 157 
Woodstock 104, 145 

Virginia 162 

Chancellorsville 183 
Fredericksburg 183 
Spottsylvania 183 
Wilderness 183 

Washington 

EUensburg 190, 223 
Seattle 156, 167, 193 
Snohomish 193 



Wisconsin 

Loyal 170 

Madison 217 

Randolph 117, 169 

Stevens Point 126, 179 
Ontario 

Brantford 204 

Ottawa 143 
Quebec 

Waterloo 104, 143 
Nova Scotia 155 

Bridgewater 160 

Halifax 90 

Mic-mac mine 211 

Miners Basin 76 
British Columbia 

Fernie 143 
Mexico 

Chihuahua 189 
England 

Groton Manor 21, 27, 
o 

Hanxwell 98 

Leyburn 98 
, Nottinghamshire 21 
, Oxfordshire 16, 21, 40 

York 98 

Yorkshire 98 
Italy 

Sienna 197 
Bavaria 

Munich 174 
Turkey US, 120, 170 

Aleppo 176 

BitHs 175 

Diarbekr 175 

Erzroom 135 

Harpoot 175 
India 197 

Arcot Mission 139 
Siam 

Bankok 121) 
China 

Nanken 112 

Shantung 224 



NAME INDEX I, Surnames Not Nutting 



Adams 

Bryant N. 165 

Cora Belle 205 

Eunice A. h36 UJ.") 

Ruth 105 

Sarah li:5 
Albee 

Cynthia 89 
Alden 

Ichabod 235, 24(3, 
2-17 
Allen 

Amanda J. 163 

Robert 235 
Alley 

Louise C. 208 
Allison 

Elizabeth 152 

laneg 72a 128, 183 

Joel 128. 183 

Mary J. h 115 183 

Sarah A. h 116 183 
Andrews 

Marth.i K. J 14 
Annis 

.Mary A. 145 
Arnold 

Mary h 107 180 

Thomas 180 
Atwater 

Abby S. 221 

Beatrice i 76 21U, 
221 

David 221 

David F. k 21 210 

David H. 21'J, 221 

Richard M. 221 
Alzbach 

I oh II 208 

"Mary 1. h 273 208 
Avery 

Experience 91 
Baccus 

Ehza J lU, 151 



Bacon 

Dr. 103 

Vienna g 95b 103 
142 
Baker 

Adelina M. g 171 151 

Charles F. 151 
Baldwin 

Belle 196 

■Lorinda 115 

Mary 1 13 
Ball 

Elizabeth L63 
Ballard 

William H. 240, 247 
Ballou 

Betsy e 43 88 

Laban 88 

Rizpah 88 
Bancroft 

Ebenezer 234 
Banister 

Abigail 74 
Barber 

Nathaniel 
Bardeen 

Beatrice i 76 219 

Bertha i 75 219 

Casendana S. h 109 
183 

Charles R. i 74 217-9 

Charles W. 18. 182- 
4, 220 

Daniel h 110 183 

Daniel \. g 72 127, 
180 

English source 98 

Ethel i 78 221 

George E. h 118 
184-6 

George E. i 80 222 

Jane A. g 72a 128, 
183 

Tane h 111 183 

John k 20 218-9 



35, 244 



John de 98 
Joseph W. h 120 186 
Mary h 114 186 
Mary E. h 119 184, 

Maxwell D. k 22 220-1 

Norman i 77 219-21 

Ralph H. i 79 221 

Roger 98 

Sarah f 62 98, 127 

Sarah M. h 112 183 

Shadrach 98 

Sherman h 113 183 

Susanna F. g 71 127 
180 

Thomas 98 

Thomas 98 

William 98 

William k 19 218-9 

William T. g 73 98, 
127, 183 

Zephaniah 98 

Zejjhenia i)8 
Barker 

John 98 

Mrs 107 
Barnes 

Alice M. h 290 209 

Dane 209 
Barrett 

Colonel 234, 247 

Mary 85 

Mary 207 

Sophia h 106 180 

Thomas S5 

Thomas 180 
Bartlett 

Anna T. 165 

Arvilda M. 165 
Batchelder 

Edmund A. 145 

Lizzie E. g 113 145 
Bates 

Daniel C. i 103 223 



NAME INDEX I, Surnames Not Nutting 253 



Ellen L. h 139 190, 

223 
Tohn S. i 105 223 
Joseph F. i 108 223 
Mary J. i 106 223 
Murrell i 107 223 
Ruth E. i 104 223 
Walter 190, 223 
Walter N. i 102 223 

Beardsley 
Mary 206 

Bardwell 
Mary 205 

Belding 

Matilda 110 

Beley 

Mattie 209 

Bell 

James 151 

Lucy B. g 175 151 

Belsy 

Mattie 209 

Benham 

Hannah M. g 761 29 
Nathan S. 129 

Bennett 

Anna i 90 222 
Bayne C. 188 
Beatrice E. i 85 222 
Bessie i 89 222 
Dorothy N. i 31-215 
Emiline C. 187 
Emily I. i 86 222 
Faith 185 
George W. h 127 188 
Harold C. 188 
Helen A. 145 
Isabella R. h 222 201 
James i 84 222 
James N. 170, 214 
Jane E. h 128 188 
John D. h 126 188 
Tohn N. i 87 222 
Joseph C. 200 
Joseph H. i 88 222 
Joseph S. h 124 188 
Josiah K. 128, 187 
Josiah K h 121 187 

222 
Lillian P. i 28 214 
Lucien J. i 30 215 



Lucinda H. g 75 128 


Joseph 100 


187 


Martha 87 


Mabel L. i 29 214 


Naomi 91 


Paul 188 


Richard 47 


Paul i 91 222 


Bond 


R. Emily h 123 187 


Lt. Col. 234 


Samuel T. C. h 129 


Boynton 


188 


Benoni 72 


Sarah M. h 125 188 


loan 72 


Stella C. h 54 170, 


loseph 237 


214 


Mary 132 


William P. h 123a 


Polly 86 


187, 222 


Brace 


Benton 


Sarah 127 


Eliza A. g 55 116 


Bradford 


Samuel A. 116, 117 


Mary g 38 115 . 


169 


Bradshaw 


Samuel N. h 47b 169 


.Mar)^ A. J 17 


Sara Maria g 57 117 


Brauns 


169 


Mary C. 197 


Billings 


Bridge 


David 110 


Ebenezer 234 


Eliza f 149 110 


Brooks 


L. 183 


Eleazer 245 


Birge 


John 235, 246, 247 


Charlotte C. 139 


Brown 


Bishop 


Abishai 233, 242, 


Matilda 88 


243, 246 


Bissell 


Hannah M. 176, 177 


Effie B. 165 


Mary E. 208 


Helen J 163 226 


Sarah 154 


Loyal 226 


Browning 


Blair 


Frances 21 1 


J. 150 


Bryant 


Nellie C. g 164 150 


Marinda 169 


Bl an chard 


Buffinton 


Elizabeth 104 


Captain 75 


Blatchley 


Nehemiah 244 


Mamie 213 


Burch 


Blodgett 


David 163 


Harriet I. 187 


Elizabeth 163 


Jemima d 23 73 


Emily Jane h 19 163 


Josiah 73 


Burgess 


Mary d 22 73 


Lydia h 8 163 


N. 73 


Warren C. 163 


Mrs. 41, 58 


Burket 


Sarah Ann g 39 115 


Helen L. g 174 151 


Thomas 115 


Thomas A. 151 


Blood 


Burnham 


Capt. 238 


Harriet h 163 196 


Isabel 68 


Oliver 196 



254 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Bush 


Caswell 




Coffin 


Jane 126, 179 


Mariet G. 167 




Anna 204 


Bushnell 


Chapman 




Collier 


Horace 118 


AHce 212 




George 244 


Butler 


Chadwick 




Compton 


Caleb 70 


Joseph 87 




Emily 197 


Butterfield 


Susannah e 37 


87 


Connor 


Reuben 234, 247, 


Chase 




Nancy 154 


248 


Addie B. 146 




Constantine 




Chamberlain 




Sarah h 105 180 


Campbell 


Anna f 67 102, 


137 


Cook 


Daniel 180 


Arthur E. h 181 


197 


Margaret 162 


Daniel 180 


Carroll L. h 188 


197 


Mary E. g 103a 143 


Martha A. h 95 ISO Charles S. h 182 


197 


Mary 0. 188 


Mary J. 157 


Clifton C. h 186 


197 


Coombs 


Cardeen 


Emily g 92 139 




Rhoda 81, 96 


Abby 184 


Herbert W. h 184 197 


Cooper 


Grace h 302 216 


Jacob 102, 137 




Timothy 48 


Carle 


Jacob g 94 139-41, 


Copeland 


Edith i 82 222 


196 




enny 179 


Frank 186 


Jacob C. h 177 


196 


Susan E. h 84 179 


Katherine i 81 -222 


Jane H. g 93 139 


Thomas 179 


M. Elizabeth h 119 


Jennie h 183 U 


)7 


Corey 


186, 222 


Joseph C. h 185 


197 


Mary J. 105, 161 


Wilhelmina i 83 22: 


> Lewis B. h 179 


197 


Timothy 235 


Carlton 


Rufus N. h 180 


197 


Cornelison 


Adelaide L. 17 212 


Sarah Ann g 91 


137 


Edward i 100 223 


Edward O. 212 


139 




Mabel V. i 99 223 


Frederic G. k 1 


William L g 95 


141 


Martha E. h 137 190 


212-:i 


197 




223 


Carpenter 95 


William I. h 178 


197 


Paul i 101 223 


1^ Dinah 74 


Chadbourne 




Robert 190, 223 


Gideon 74 


Charles 1 14 




Robert i 98 223 


Jemima 74 


Charlotte C. g 12 114 


Cowan 


Mary 74 


Chandler 




Bryant (). 204 


Nathan 74 


Celeste E. 133 




Mary J. h -434 204 


Sarah 74 


Chickering 




Cragin 


Sibyl f 38 95 


Ellen A. 115 




Louise 157 


Carter 


Childs 




Crawford 


Anna L. h 171 196 


Emily 120 




George 157 


Susan 145 


Sarah f 164 110 


Harriet M. g 223 157 


Carver 


Clark 




Crossman 


Eliza M. h 22 163 


Aileen 209 




Angeline f 168 110 


John 163 


Ensign 247 




Crowinshield 


Castner 


Lovina 110 




Bertha L. 201 


Cora i 24 214 


Clifford 




Debora d 56 75 


Ethel i 26 214 


Cornelia f 142 


150 


Cunningham 


Frona i 27 214 


Clough 




Jennie i 12 213 


George 170 


Eliza 112 




John 189 


John i 26 214 


Coffey 




John C. 189 


Lilian h 53 170 


Ella 196 




Minnie E. 189 



NAME INDEX I, Surnames Not Nutting 



255 



Gushing 

Colonel 247 

Eva 148 
Dam 

Alice C. Ill 
Damon 

Mary 145 
Dane 

Ezra lol 

Lois A. g 172 151 
Dascomb 

A. B. 157, 1309 

George A. h 284 209 

Harry N. h 283 157 
209 

Mary g 22 7157, 209 
Davis 

Abigail 68 

Charles S. 109, 150 

John 68 

Mary A. 127 

Mary J. 109, 150 
Deering 

Jessie G. 193 
Denny 

Samuel 23.3 
Dew 

George 191 

Priscilla 191 
Dexter 

Foster 1 10 

Phebe f 160 1 10 
Dickerman 

Abraham 221 

Charles 1S4 

Ellen P. 184 

Jane F. 184 

Thomas 221 
Dickey 

Jessie C. 200 
Dickinson 

Martha 155 
Dix 

Mrs. 101 
Dixon 

Polly Ann 146 
Dodd 

Albert i 119 224 

George 195, 224 

Millicent h 155 195 
224 



Dow 

Frank M. 167 
LilHeJ.h38 167 

Dowling 

Lillior T. 1 59 

Drake 

Adeline 1 15 

Dunn 

Margaret 215 

Duryea 

Arietta 1 59 

Dustin 

Eunice e 27 82 
Hannah 82 
Timothy 82 

Eaman 

Mrs Mary 102 

Eames 

Annie R. i 72 217 
Nellie i 73 217 
Sarah A. h 116 183, 

217 
Walter 183, 217 
Walter Ci 71 217 

Eastman 

Dorcas A. g 14 114 
Moses 114 

Edwards 

Albert h 98 180 
Ellen h 102 180 
George R. h 100 ISO 
Lucy h 101 180 
Martin L. h 103 180 
Mary g 70 127, 180 
Pierpont 127, 180 
Sarah h 99 180 

Eggleston 
Sarah 40 

Ellis 

Lillie 205 

Ely 

Justin 237 

Emerson 
John 244 
Jonathan 90, 95 
Rebecca e 64 90 
Rebecca f 34 95 

Evans 

Claire h 136 190, 

222 
DavTd C. i 95 223 



Huntly M. i 95 223 
John F. i 97 223 
Mabel i 96 223 
William 190. 222 
William N . i 93 
222 

Fairbanks 

jane g 74 128 

Faikinburg 

Deism a X. 164 

Farnsworth 
Asahel 1 27 
Eunice 1 27 
Mary Ann 127 

Farr 

Martha 164 

Farrell 

Andrew 109 
Eliza f 149 110 
Emily f 151 1 10 
Frances E. f 150 110 
Lewis f 152 1 10 
Maria N. f 147 109 
Polly e 45 88, 109 
Sarah M. f 148 109 
Theodore f 146 109 

Fenn 

AHce M. 209 
Carrie P. 209 

Ferguson 112 

Ferry 

Aaron 153 
Judith g 197 153 

Fettyplace 

Edward 248 

Field 

Marshall 214 
Susan H. Ill 

Fifield 165 

Finch, Vanslyke & Co 
189 

Fish 

Jonathan 245 

Fisher 

Capt. 247 

Fiske 

lames 44, 47 
"|()hn 41 

Fitch 
Eliza 112 
Emily 120 



256 



XUTTING GENEALOGY 



Harrison W. 155 

Joseph 114 

Zelina H. g 214 
155 
Fitts 

Anna 88 

Marv no 
Flint 

Charlotte 'J() 

John 95, 96 

Roxy f 44 90 

Sibyl f 38 95 
Foote 

Jane 184 

Mary 137 
Forsythe 

Mollie 115 
Foster 

Mary 155 
Foy 

Susan 1 1 
French 

Joseph 13 

"Susanna D. 82 

Susannah 13 
Frenyear 

Celia 171-2 
Frost 

Abbie C. i 4 212 

Joseph 212 

Lucy A. 109 
Fuller 

JuHa 107 
Furber 

Marv 103 
Gale 

Lucy 137 
Gates 

Gen. 247 
George 



M 



innic 



_'05 



Gerrish 

Colonel 235 

Gibbs 

Linina 129 

Gibson 

John 128 
Mary A. 128 
Samuel A. 128 

Gilbert 

Eunice '07 



jane 107 
Gill 

Albert G. 157 
Gilman 

Cordelia 117, 109 
Gilson 

Elizabeth M. 222 
Glover 

Clara L. h 168 19(1, 
224 

Claudia i 117 224 

Donald M. i 125 224 

lohn 237, 248 

John A. h 153 195, 
196, 224 

L. M. 136, 194 

Leonard W. 124, 224 

Lyman B. h 150 195 

Marcia h 152 195 

Marcia Ann g 85 
136, 194 

Martha X. h 151 
195 

Mary h 148 195 

William B. h 154 
195, 223-4 
Godding 

Esther 163 
Goit 

Betsy 93 
Gorman 

John 209 

Laura A. h 287 209 
Gosling 

Gilbert 145 - 

Harriet A. g 110 145 
Gothens 

Josei^h 146 
Gould 

Albion 207 

Anna May i 54 
176, 216 

Clarissa g 33 11 5 

Edwin i 52 17('i, 
216 

Harriet A. h 265 
207 

Isaac 176, 216 

Joseph 115 

Mabel i 53 176, 
216 



Sarah A. h 77 176, 
216 
Grace 

J. 245 
Graff 

Anna B. 1 14 
Grant 

So]ihia e 70 90 
Gray 

Ellen M. 163 

Eunice Adelaide h 36 
165 

Henry F. 165 
Greaves 

Jane f 169 110 
Green 

Albert i 55 179, 
216 

David 234 

Ella M. i 56 179, 216 

Lavinia h 85 179 

Orrin 179 

Samuel R. jr., 41, 
46, 58, 61, 86 

William 239 
Greene 

Abby S. 221 

G. W. 210 

Gertrude E. h 296 
210 

Levi 115 

vSibyl A. g 36 115 

William 48 
Gregg 

Fanny 175 
Hall 

Ho])cstill 236 
Halter 

L(juisa 1 14 
Hamilton 

Jesse 88 

Lucy e 40 88 
Hammond 

Mary M. 148 
Hancock 

General 243 

Martha A. 163 
Harland 

Sarah M. f 148 109 
Harmer 

Althea 217-9 



NAME INDEX I, Surnames Not Nutting 



257 



Harrandon 

Lucinda 109 
Harris 

Josiah 234 
Hartshorn 

Capt. T. 243 
Hartwell 

Margaret 111 

Tryphosa 111 
Haskell 

Elizabeth 143 
Hastings 

Judith 110 
Haven 

Jos. 205 
Hawes 

Elvira g 48 116 

William 116 
Hayes 

Mary g 47 116 
Heath 

Nathaniel 243 

WilHam 235 
Heckman 

Catherine h 200 199, 
225 

Chauncey i 141 225 



Florence i 143 



225 



George i 142 225 
L. 199, 225 

Herman 

Fannie S. g 234 

Hewitt 

Emily 145 

Hibbard 
A. G. 207 
Julia S. h 261 207 

Higginson 

Charles i 114 223 
Dayton i 116 223 
Ed. 195, 223 
Harry i 115 223 
Martha N. h 151 
195, 223 

Highfield 

Charles 195, 224 
Nellie h 160 195, 

224 
Ross i 121 195, 224 
Rufus i 121 195, 
224 



HUdreth 

Emily M. 229 

HUl 

Priscilla 157 

HUler 

Joseph 236 

Hobart 

Gershom 82 
Sarah e 26 82 

Hodges 

Frances C. 175 
Sarah E. 175 
Susan A. 175 

Hoffman 
Mary 156 

Holden 
Abel 238 
Annis d 26 73 
Julia E. g 112 145 
Orsemor 145 
Richard 48 
William 73 

Holmes 

Eppie A. 143 

Hooker 

Almira A. 131 
Clara Louise 170 

Hopkins 

Charles E. i 35 215 
Clara M. V. h 57 17 
Clara M. V. h 57 

171, 215 
Evelyn N. i 36 215 
William H. 171, 
215 

Hopkinson 
Harriet 150 

Hosford 

Caroline i 130 224 
Donald i 132 224 
Harold i 131 224 
Henry H. 197, 224 
Herbert i 131 224 
Ida 164 

Jennie h 183 197, 
224 

Hosmer 

Joseph 237, 239, 
242, 245 

Houts 

Elizabeth 207 



How 

Cyprian 236 
Hubbard 

Mary 85 

Marv 99 
Hunt ' 

Mrs 89 

Margaret L. 136 
Hunter 

Jane e 25 82 
Hutchinson 

Esther 105 
Ingraham 

Albert W. 150 

Caroline L. g 163 
150 
Irish 

Amy Belle h 30 45, 
52, 95, 124, 165 

George F. 165 
Irwin 

Anna M. 196 
Jackson 

Ephraim 233, 242, 
243, 246, 247 
Jacobs 

John 236 
Jarvis 

Gertrude M. 206 
Jelliff 

Caroline A. 211 
Jeffers 

Deacon 233, 246 
Jenkins 

Joel 243 
Jenner 

Dr. 115 

Mary g 38 115 
Jewett 

Aaron 239, 246 
Johnson 

Jonathan h 224 
201 

Mary 105 

Susan g 131 146, 
201 
Jones 

Leila 197 

Lillian S. i 189 229 

M. 180, 217 

Margaret 196 



258 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Phoebe T h 322 211 
229 

Sarah h 99 ISO, 
217 

Walter C. i 67 217 

William B. 211, 
22«» 
Joslyn 

Caroline 107 
Judd 

Lucile 2140 
Keep 24 

Jonathan UD 

Lucinda 99 
Keith 

Major 247 

Sarah i\I. f 148 lO'J 
Kelwin 

Lord 190 
Kemp 

Samuel 48 

Sarah SG 
Kendall 

Daniel I h 263 207 

Frank L. h 260 207 

Frederick M. h 264 
207 

George L. h 258 
206 

Harriet A. h 265 
207 

Isadore h 262 207 

Jennie C. h 266 
207 

Julia S. h 261 207 

Juliana g 196 In.], 
206 

Leonora C. h 259 
206 

Mosely J. lo.'i, 206 
Kent 

Eljenezer 237 
Kidd, Capt. 27 
Kimball 

Martha H. 196 
King 

Etna 154 

James 247 
Kingsbury 

Mary f 130 108, 
149 



Samuel 108, 149 
Knapp 

Abba h 131 189 

Charles D. h 130 
189 

Frank h 132 189 

Hannah M. g 76 
129, 189 

I. N. 129, 189 
Kneeland 

Emily 153 
Knutinga 19 
Lafayette, Gen. 201 
Lakin 

William 47, 48 
Lampman 

Sibyl f 38 95 
Lamson 

Samuel 245 
Langton 

[ohn C. 156 

Julia E. g 215 156 
Lathrop 

Mary L. 208 
Lawrence 94, 115 

Abbott 84 

Academy 39 

Asa 82, 233, 238, 
242, 247, 248 

Curtis 132 

Molly 79 

Nathaniel 47 

William 233 

Zeruiah 87 
Leal and 

Joshua 243 
Leatherwood 

Frances M. g 134 
146 

Samuel 146 
Lermond 

Mrs Maggie 69 
Lernet 

Isa. 41 
Lester 

Alice 199 
Letty 

[. R. 162 

Sarah h 7 162 
Lewis 

Marion h 197 



Rhoda 94 

Lightfoot 
E. E. 171 

Lobdell 

Charlotte L. 146 

Long 

Daniel 143 
Mary E. g 103a 
143 

Loveland 

Mary C. 105 

Lowell 

Captain 68 

Luce 

Jesse 214 
Mabel H. k 15b 
214 

Lyman 

Mary 152 

Lymans 89 

Lyon 

Mary f 167 1 10 

McBurney 

Martha A. 199 

McClellan 

Dorothy k 24 221 
Marjory i 79 221 
Marjory k 23 221 
Minet B. 221 

McCobb 

Samuel 243 

McGraw 

Edwin R. b36 
Hannah A. 156 
Loyilla H. g 218 
156 

McGregor 

Ethvard 190 
Minnie h 135 189 

Mcintosh 

William 245 

McKinley 

Alice C\ i 65 217 
Arthur P. i 62 217 
Charles E. i 61 217 
Edwin L. i 66 217 
G. A. 180, 217 
[oseph F. i 64 217 
Julia B. h 96 180, 

217 
Roslyn i 63 217 



NAME INDEX I. Surnames Not Nutting 



2o9 



McLennan 

Katherine 153 
McNeal 

Captain 90 

Mary e 68 90 
Manly 

Sallie 1 1 6 
Manning 

Marcia 101 
Mansfield 

Elinor 163 
Marshall 

Emma 129 

Lucy 142 

Martha E. g 78 129 

Zachariah 129 
Martin 

Cora 211 

Lor a h 9 113, 163 

Melitta g 6 113, 
163 

Piatt 113, 163 

William 47 
Mason 

Emma E. h 326 211 

Lillian 176 

Linus B. 211 
Massasoit 53 
Matterson 

James 109 

Sophronia f 137 109 
MayeroUes 

Roger 98 
Medder 

Mercy 115 
Merrick 

Pollv 88, 109 
Merrill 

Theresa 1 46 
Merriman 

Alice 206 
Miller 

Nannie Keith 172 

OHve 200 

Stella 143 
Miles 

Xelson A. 159 
Minot 

George 246 



Mitchell 

Harriet F. k 18 
215 

Henry 195 

Louise M. i 42 215 

Mary h 148 195 

Miss 189 

Ralph L. 215 
Mono jo 55-7 
Moore 

Arietta D. i 186 229 

Elvira S. 104, 145 

Grace h 309 211, 
229 

H. 110 

Lee P. i 188 229 

Lydia d 24 73 

Marion H. i 186 
229 

Philip 211, 229 

Polly f 161 1 10 

Timothy 73 
Morgan 

J. 180 
Morley 

Lillis R. 174 
Moses 

Annie R. i 72 257 
Murray 

Seth 236 
Muttart 

Mable 194 
Murrell 

Ellen I. 132 
Nash 

Harriet 155 
Nason 

Mary B. 229 
Nelson 

Hannah 98 
Nettleton 

Jennie M. 152 
Newell 

Henry 233 
Newhali 

Thomas 247 
Nichols 

[osephine 115 

Mary E. 120, 177 
Nickerson 

Miss 189 



Noyes 

Blanche 1 7() 
Oliver 

Robert 24C) 
Orcutt 

Tryphena 148 
Osborn 

Chauncey 129 

Susanna 'g 77 129 
Osgood 

Sophia 14() 
Page 

Elizabeth 70 

John 48 
PaJmer 

Henr}' C. 1 15 

Martha J. 115 

Mary J. g 31 115 

Mary J. 1()5 
Parker 

lames 41, 44, 47, 
49, 51, 5;5-7, 59, 
61. 63 

Tane e 25 82 

Jennie 198 

jertisha 72 

lonas 235 

Joshua 243, 24t) 

Lucy 94 

Maria 63 

Ohver 82 
Parsons 

Isadore 165 
Partridge 

Juliette 150 
Patch 

Allen h 90 1 79 

Allen I i 58 179, 
216' 

Anna g 64 120, 176 

Frederick E. h 93 
179 

George F. h 87 179 

George H. h 91 179, 
216 

Harry M. i 60 179, 
216 

Jacob g 67 1 26, 
179 

Jane B. h 92 179 

Julia B. h 96 ISO 



260 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Lydia g 65 ll'U, 179 
INIartha A. h 95 

180 
Alary g 70 127, 180 
Mary H. h 94 179 
Mary N. i 57 17'J, 21() 
Minnietta h 97 180 
Orrin G. i 59 17'J, 

210 
Riifus g 69 127, 

ISO 
Rufiis A. h 8a 17U 
Sara Jane h 88 179 
Susanna f 61 98, 

120 
Susanna g 63 120 
William F. h 86 179 
William N. g 68 

12G 



Zara g 66 



98. 



120-5, 179 
Paugus 11, 12 
Pedro, Don 174 
Penfield 

Cynthia 162 
Penniman 

Peter 235 
Perry 

Harriet E. 201 
Peasly 

Harriet 104 
Peterson 

Cynthia f 70 103, 
142 

Cynthia g 95a 103, 
142 

Vienna g 95b 103, 
142 
Philip, King 53-00 
Philips 

Helen 102 
Phinney 

Edwin L. 180 

Susan h 108 180 
Pierce 

Lucy 90 
Pinks 

Mehitable 158 
Pitts 

William 133 



Piummer 

A. Josephine 189 
Poland 

Joseph 150 

Mary 150 

Sarah 150 
Pomfret 

May 212 
Pomroy 

Emerette 154 
Pond & Edwards 127 
Porter 

John 233, 236, 
244 
Powers 

Angie C. g 166 150 

Maud N. g 167 150 

May W. g 168 150 

Sarah W. f 143 109, 
150 

William L. 109, 150 
Pratt 

Asbury 103 

Augusta h 288 209 

Euphemia f 78 103 

Rufus 103 . 

Sarah E. 165 

W. R. 209 
Presby 

Austin 206 

Jennie M. h 251 
206 
Prescott 

Sibyl ( ?) 75 

William 233, 234, 236 
238, 239, 244, 245 
246 
Preston 

Abi L. 135 

E. T. 135 

Grace Marie 194 
Priest 

Herbert L. 19:5 

Jessie G. h 145 193 
Putnam 

Rufus 234 
Quantrell's raid 1 29 
Ramsey 

Loretta 179 
Rawson 

Cynthia S. g 169 151 



Lyman 151 
Raymond 

Ernest C. i 70 217 

George A. 183, 217 

Mary J. h 115 183, 
217 
Reed 

Jane 154 

Joan 73 

Jonathan 234, 238, 
242, 243, 247, 248 

M. 242 
Richardson 

Edith H. 170 

Minnie 179 
Riley 

Adeline 156 
Riseng 

Richard 156 
Robertson 

James 48 
Royce 

Enoch L. 164 

S. M. Antoinette 
164 
Robinson 

John 233, 239 

Lemuel 236 
Rockwood 

Captain 82 
Rogers 

Mary A. 105 
Root 

Laura M. 103 
Ross 

Annie h 161 195 

Marion 195 
Roy 

J. E. 206 
Rugg 

Caroline S. 206 
Russell 

Belle A. h 224e 202 

Mary 89, 105 
Ryder 

Helen 162 
Sadd 

Mrs George g 157 
108, 150 
Samson 

Simeon 244 



NAME INDEX I, Surnames 


Not Nutting 261 


Sanborn 


Nellie C. g 164 15 


James 73 


Elizabeth 145 


Sarah 159 


'Maria 206 


Faith i 178 227 


Shepard 


Mary f 33 95 


John 207, 227 


Henrietta 170 


Soi)hia 127 


Julia S. h 261 207, 22^ 


■ William 244 


Susan R. 165 


Sartell 


Sherman 


Strafford 


Josiah 238, 242 


CeHa 113 


Earl of 98 


Sargent 


Sinclair 


Stratton 


Jennie 146 


Claire 143 


Mary 110 


Saunders 


Skenck 


Stuart' 


Martha 116 


Eugene 196 


Gecn-ge A. 163 


Sawtell 


Jennie h 165 196 


Susan K. h 17 163 


Richard 47 


Skinner 


Sturgis 


Sawtelle 


Walter 4S 


Lulu 213 


Abel 127, ISO 


Smith 


Sullivan 


Mary h 107 180 


Alice G. g 185 15; 


Ccu. 245 


Sarah h 105 180 


Calvin 238 


Swallow 


Sophia h 106 ISO 


Catherine 89 


|(ihn 73 


Stillman h 104 180 


Edward 188 


"Sarah 73 


Susan h 108 180 


Esther 89 


Swift & Co 204 


Susanna F. g 71 


Fred A. 152 


Sylvester 


127, 180 


Joel 248 


Lucy 206 


Scribner 


Marion 152 


Symonds 


Deborah 113, 163 


Rena 188 


lacol) 98 


Scudder 


Snow 


"lane g 74 128 


[oseph 137 


Susan Barker 113 


lane R. f 63 98, 128 


Sarah Ann g 91 i:!7 


Souther 


Taylor 


Sellers 


jane h 111 183 


Aniv T. i 177f 226 


Eva 206 


Spaulding 


Clarence i 177c 226 


Sewell 


lulia A. 105 


Ernest i 177a 226 


Emma 213 


Mary iK) 


' Everette i 177e 226 


Sharp 


Spear 


Horace 206, 226 


E. C. 120, 170 


Anna 87 


Leonora C. h 259 


Lavinia h 85 179 


Lucy 110 


206. 22(i 


Lydia g 65 120, 


Spencer 


Leslie K. i 177d 226 


17i) 


Mary 1 oo 


Luhi S. i 177b 226 


Susan E. h 84 17ii 


Spring' 


Teele 


Shattuck 


|. F. 152 


see Theile 


Antoinette 113 


'Mrs T- F. g 182 1. 


V2 Temple 


Harriet 129 


Stanley 


Lillior 159 


Job 84, 86, 234 


Elbridge G. 145 


Sanih f 164 110 


place 35 


Stark 


Tenney 


Ruth 65 


Harriet 107 


Ad die L. 146 


William 65 


Starret 


Thatcher 


"hishyde" 11, 31, 6ti 


> Thomas 243 


Cul.incl 244 


Shaw 


Stiles 


Thiele 


Calvin 109, 150 


Gidney 207 


Athene Velma k 15 


Cornelia f 142 109, 


Isadore h 262 207 


214 


150 


Stone 95 


Richard 214 


Frank g 165 150 


Deborah d 25 73 


Sadie i 17 214 



262 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Thomas 

C. C. loO 

Marv S, g 213 lot) 
Thome 

Helen i 5 212 

Henry C 212 
Thompson 

Louisa !'.•") 

Simeon 4 1 
Thyrkell 

Thomas 98 
Tinsloo, 

Lord of 98 
Titcomb 

Jonathan 236 
Terry 

Minnie M. 201 
Torrey 

Abbie 187 
Towne 

Nancy A. 202 
Trowbridge 

Phineas 9.1 

Rebecca f 32 95 
Turtle 

Isabel M. i 16 214 

Leroy 214 

Ream X. k 13 214 

Ruth E. k 14 214 
Ulmer 

Philip M. 243 
Upson 

Julia A. 127 
Upton 

Mary A. 157 
Venable 

Llla 195 
Varney 

Margery B. 115 
Walrath 

Hattie 209 
Wade 

Nathaniel 237 
Wait 

Katherine 95, 1 14 
Waite 

May F. 210 
Waits 

Mary 94 
Walker 

Ann Eliza h 189 197 



Arthur h 316 211 

Belle h 315 211 

Beniamin P. 197 

Daniel h 314 211 

Deborah :] 1 1 

Ellen E i 109 22.i 

Esther f 92 1U5 

Florence h 317 211 

John F. 190, 223 

John R. i 110 223 

Levi 105 

Louisa S. g 257 
160, 211 

Mary E. h 140 190, 
223 
Wallace 

Abigail e 36 87 

Daniel 87 

Jessie 198 
Walsh 

Louisa 106, 159 
Walter 

Lulu A. 209 
Ward 

Rachel M. 109 
Ware 

Lucy A. 109 

Mary J. 109 
Warner 

Ellen F. 151 

Helen A. 203 
Washburn 

Arvilla f 88 104 

Leonard 104 

Seth 247 
Washington 

George 79 
Weaver 

Jane 154 
Webb 

Colonel 75 

Emma A. g 15 114 

Joseph 244 
Wells 

Nutting & 152 
Wentworth 

John 235 
Weston 

Hannah 145 
Wheatley 

Mary A. 189 



Wheeler 

Asahel 233 

Ephraim 244 

Mary 76 
Whitcomb 

Lucy 116 
White 

Elizabeth 165 

Haffield 234 

Marcia 107 

Mary 212 

Thomas 235 
Whiting 

Henry 179 

Sarah J. h 88 179 
Whitney 

Jennie C. h 266 
207 

Josiah 233, 246 

Lawrence 207 
Whittaker |; '■ 

Almira 146 
Wiley 

Nellie M. 208 
Willard 47 

Aaron 235 
Williams 

Miss 199 

Roger 22 1 
Willington 

Miss 163 
Wilson 

Una Pearl 222 
Winn 

Anna g 64 1 20, 

176 

Ellen M. h 82 179 

Jacob N. g 81 176 

John 120 

Josephine h 79 176 

Mary A. h 78 176 

Rufus h 80 176 

Sarah Ann h 77 176 

Sylvanus h 76 176 
Winter 

Luthera 155 
Winthrop 27, 43 

Adam 22 

John 21, 2, 423 



NAME INDEX I, Surnames Not Nutting 



263 



Wiswell 

Lizzie g 140 14S 
Oren 148 
Wood 

Clara L. h 168 196 
Daniel L. 137, 196 
Edson T. h 170 

196, 224 
Edson T. i 127 224 
Gaylord A. i 126 

224 
Harold M. i 128 

224 
Herbert S. h 171 

196, 224 
John A. G. i 129 

224 
Katherine R. 156 



Leonard D. h 167 
176 

Marcia M. h 166 
196 

Martha E. g 89 137, 
196 

Olive SS 

Willis G. 196 
Woodbridge 

Benjamin R 236 
Woodbury 

Martha 146 
Woods 

Amos 72 

Henry 239 

Samuel 47 
Woodward 

Nutting & 243 



Worley 

Adah E. 17.") 
Wottles 

Mason 238 
Wright 

Hannah 95 
Wyman 

Henry 98 
Yergey 

Jessie 199 
Young 

George 116 

lohn 96, 115 

Nancy f 41 9(), 
115 

Pearl 214 
Younger brothers 
143, 2U0 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 

This is in man_\- ways an interesting list of names. 
It includes about all that are commonly given, and 
some that are unusual. The good old Bible names so 
frequent in the 17th and 18th centuries have largely 
disappeared. There were five Benjamins in the fourth 
generation, but there are only two in the eighth, both 
with a second initial. But Benjamin Franklin has 




Benjamin Franklin Nutting g 43 

been a favorite name; there were three in a single 
generation. Ephraim disappears with the fifth gener- 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 265 

ation, Ezekial with the sixth, Jacob with the fiftli, Jon- 
athan and Luther with the seventh. Nehemiah with 
the fourth. James and John hold their own, and sliare 
their popularity with William, distinctly a Nutting 
favorite. Of the women's names Mar}' 1:)egan to l)e 
common in the fourth generation, and has grown more 
and more often a choice, heading all the rest. Sarah, 
too, appears frequently, and Eunice comes down to the 
tenth generation. In fact parents selecting a name 
for their first-born may scan this index with assurance 
that they can find here the best names in the language 
and can judge something of their desirability from the 
frequency with which they appear. 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 



Aaron S(l 

f 46 VH) 
Aaron T- I*- •'•> 
Abel A", f 51 V)C), IK) 

e 20 M, IKi, 233 

e 30 SC) 

e 31 S(), lO:! 

e 67 ;tO 

f 51 i>0 

f 72 103. 142 

f 119 107 

h 32 10,1 
Abbie C. i 4 212 
Abiel A. f 100 105, 146 
Abigail 

d 13 72 

d 27 73 

e 22 SI 

e36 87 

e 66 SC) 
Abijah f 118 107 
Abner 

e 41 SS 

f 52 UC) 

f 126 107 

f 139 lOS, 150 

f 195 1 58 
Abram H. 100 
Abraham 

e 74 1)1, 104, 199 
Ada 150 
Adelina 

h 224a 202 
Adaleza L. 

h 224c 202 
Addie 

k 5 212 
Addison E 

f 102 1, 105, 14(; 
Adelaide 1^. 

17 212 
Adelina M. 

g 171 151 
Alace g 171 151 

e 54 80 



Albert 

f 104 106 

f 191 157 

h 62 1 74 
Albert B. 

g 233 157 
Albert F. 

gl7 114 
Albion 

g 50 1 16, 165 
Alden 

f 1 58 110, 152 
Alden B. 

g 34 11 5 
Alfred 

e 51 88 
Alice 189 
Alice C. 

i 168 226 
Alice E. 

h 209 200 
Alice G. 

g 185 152 
Alice L. 

h 158 195, 224 
Alice M. 

h 290 200 

k 2 212 
Alma T. 

h 308 210 
Almira 

g 20 1 14 
Alonzo 

g 162 150 

g 206 154, 208 
Alpha H. 

h 294 200 
Amos 233 

d 72 76 

f 9 04 
Amy Belle 

h 30 45, 52, 95, 124 
165 
Andrew J. 

g 242 159 



Angelina 

f 168 110 

g 124 146 
Angeline 

f 168 lOS 
Ann C. 

h 323 211 
Ann E. 

h 189 107 
Anna 

f 67 102 

f 122 107 
Anna Celeste 

h 146 175, 193 
Anna Cordelia 

h 49 170 
Anna H. 

h 75a 175 
Anna L. 

h 292 209 
Anna M. 

h 257 206 
Anne 

d42 74 
Annie 

g 250 149 

h 161 195 

k 6 212 
Annie B. 

h 138 100 
Annette 

g 102 143 
Annis 

d 26 73 
Ansel E. 

h 245 205 
Archer I. 

h 221 201, 22G 
Arthur F. 

g 18 4, 152 
Arthur K. 

g 108 143 
Arvilla 
f 88 104 



N 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 267 



Asa 


Caleb L. 


Charles Huber 


e 42 88 


h 28 79, 115, 102, 


g 187 152 


f 25 9-4 


1(35, 212 


Charles L. 


f 156 110, 102 


Calvin 


g 10a 1 1.!, 163 


Asia 


f 29 94 


Charles M. 


f 40 95, 11.5 


f 186 110, 150 


g 192 153 


Augusta 


g 216 156 


h 190 197 


h 288 209 


Calvin W. 


i 111 223 


Austin 


f 140 109, 150 


Charles P. 


i 11 212 


Caroline 


g 51 116, 167 


Avis 


f 30 94 


h 18 163 


i 51d 216 


Caroline L. 


Charles R. 


Belle A. 


g 163 150 


i 169 226 


h 224e 222 


Carrie 


Charles S. 199, 209 


Belle S. 


h 157 195 


h 275 208, 227 


g 214 156 


Cassius M. 


Charles W. 194 


Benjamin 2o4 


g 155, 149 


h 195 198, 225 


d 18 72 


Catherine 


h 212 200, 225 


d35 74 


fl81 112 


i 134 225 


d 44 74 


h 200 199 


Charlotte 


d 47 74 


Charles 107, 234 


e 53 88 


d 52 75 


d 60 75 


f 22 94 


e 47 88 


f 170 1 10, 153 


Charlotte C. 


e 65 90 


g 58 117, 169 


g 12 114 


f 121 107 


g 226 157 


Charlotte E. 


Benjamin F. 


h 286 209 


i 160 225 


e 67 90 


Charles Alb. 


Chauncey W. 1 99 


g 10b 113, 163 


g 106 143 


Cheney 


gl9 114 


h 48 169, 213 


e 57 89, 110 


g 43 115, 105 


k 11 214 


Cherile W. 


h 224h 202 


Charles Alf. 


h 279 208 


Benjamin N. 


h 220 201, 220 


Claire 190 


h 15 16:5 


Charles Allen 


Clara 


Bessie 


g 97 142, 197 


g 213g 155 


i 149 199, 225 


h 254 206, 226 


i 172 226 


h 272r 208 


Charles Aug. 


Clara A. 


Betsy 


h 34 165,212 


h 193 197 


e 43 88 


Charles C, 


Clara M. 


f 53 90 


h 159 195 


h 57 171,215 


Betty 


Charles D. 


Clarence 


d 7 72 


h 306 210 


g 217 l.")6 


e 72 91 


Charles E. 


i 150 225 


f 115 107 


h 293 209 


Clarence E. V. 


Bruce 143 


i 177 226 


h 57 170, 215 


Bryant 


Charles G. 


Clarence N. 


f 154 110, 151 


i 20 214 


i 19 214 


Buckley P. 


k 15a 214 


Clarissa 


e66 90, 112 


Charles Henry 


g 33 11 5 


Byron 


g 125 146, 200 


g 202b 1.54 


g 23 114 


h 75e 176, 216 


Clifford P. 


g 159 150 


h 224b 202 


g 188 1 52 



268 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Clifford R. 

i 32 L>lo 
Clinton A. 

i 15 l'i;5 
Cora A. 

h 274 2US 
Cora I. 

h 191 nu 

Cornelia 

f 142 101), l.-,U 
Cynthia 

f 70 \u:i 
Cynthia S. 

g 169 151 
Cyrus 

f 74 lu;-! 
Daniel I'.U 

c 2 (>."), 7l' 

d 6 71', 71> 

e 19 79, 95, 1 15 

f 37 95 

g 18 114, mi 
Daniel C. 191 

g 83 132, 190 

h 141 190-3 
Daniel W. 

f 182 1 12 

g 41 115 

h 20 163 
David ITi, 235-6 

d 16 72, 81 

d 38 74, 88, 151 

d 75 71, 76, 91, 104 
155 

e 56 89 

f 163 110 

g 241 159 
David H. 

g 61 118-20, 175 
David R. 

h 246 205 
Deborah 

d 25 73 

d 56 24, 75 
Delia 

f 54 DC) 

g 240 ] 59 
Delia G. 

g 243 159 
Deliverance 

f 54 90 



Dorcas A. 

g 14 114 
Dorris A. 

i 175 226 
Dorothy 

i 112 223 
Dorothy B. 

i 51b 216 
Dwight 

f 139 109, 150 
Dwight C. 

h 241 205, 22(; 
Earl M. 

140 215 
Eben 

d 62 76 

f 98 105 
Ebenezer 236 

b 5 49.^54, 58, 61, 62 
63, 65, 68 

c 3 (^n, 72 

c 14 68, 74 

d 14 72 

d 39 74 

d 43 74, 89 

e 39 87, 108 

e 49 88, 110 

f 133 108 

f 172 ni, 153 
Eddie H. 

h 253. 206, 226 
Ede 

f 31 95 
Edith 

g 213h 155 

h 272s 208 
Edward A. 

h 224d 2t)2 
Edward D. 

h 10 1 63 
Edward L. 

is 212 
Edwin A. 

f 197 111, 159 
Edwin L. 

g 117 145 
Edwin M. 

g 149 149 
Edwin T. 

h 176 196 



Eldad 

f 196 158 
Eleazar 237 

c 5, 17, 68, 73 

d 29 73, 86 

e 10 78 

e 33 86, 103 
Eldred 

f 196 111 
Eli 

f 99 J 05 

g 195 153 
Elias H. 

h 219 201, 225 
Elijah 237 

f 3 93 
Elijah C. 

g 210 154, 207 
Elisha 

f 11 94 
Eliza 

f 149 108 

g 100 143 

g 213b 155 
Eliza A. 

g 55 116 
Eliza M. 

h 22 163 
Elizabeth 78 

c 11 68 

d 64 76 

d74 76 

e 17 79 

e 75 91 

f 10 94 

g 143 148 
Ella 

g 105 143 

i 47 216 
Ella A. 

h 224k 202 
Ella J. 

f 148 107, 149 
Ellen 

g 213c 155 
Ellen A. 

h 188 197 
Ellen L. 

h 139 190 
Ellis Z. 

i 185 229 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 209 



Elmer E. 

h 29 45, 1(35 
Elsie 

i 41 215 
Elvira 

g 48 IIG 

g 151 149 
Emerson 

f 180 llL', 155 
Emila 

g4 113 

h 3 162 
Emily 

f 151 108 

f 179 112 

g 10 113 

g 101 143 

g 202c 154 
Emma 

h 224i 202 
Emma A. 

g 15 114 
Emma E. 

h 326 211 
Emma F. 

g 103c 143 
Ephraim 238 

d 2 72, 78 

e 6 78, 94 

e 80 90, 104, iU5 
Epsie G. 

i 136 225 
Esther 

e 23 SI 

f 92 1 Oo 
Esther S. 

f 173 111 
Ethel 

h 272i 2U7 
Eugene 

g 152 149 

h 268 207 
Eunice 78 

d8 72 

e 18 79 

e 27 82 

f 47 96 

f 109 106 

g 259 16U 
Eunice A. 

h 36 165 



Eunice C. 

h 20 156 
Eunice D. 

i 6 212 
Euphemia 

f78 103 
Eva 

g 194 153 

g 213d 155 
Eva W. 1X9 
Ezekiel 238-9 

d 9 72, 81 

e 21 81, 96 

f 59 96, 116 
Fannie M. 

h 297 2U) 
Fannie P. 

i 51 216 
Fatima 

f 136 109 
Ferdinand L. 

g 122 146 
Florence E. 

h 211 200 
Florence L. 

i 158 225 
Florence M. 

k8 214 
Florette 

i 153 225 
Frances M. 

g 134 1 16 
Frank 

g 207 154, 2(17 

h 272c 207 
Frank B. 

h 289 209 
Frank E. 

h 280 208 
Frank H. 

h 46 169' 
Frank L.> 

h 305 210 

i 179 227 
Frank P. 

h 278 208, 227 
Franklin P. 

g 216 156 

g 217 156 

i38 215 



Franklin S. 

h 255 206 
Fred 199 

h 272a 207 

h 272v 208 

i 152 225 
Fred C. 

h 205 199 225 
Fred H. 

h 272f 207 
Fred Joy 200 
Fred Pike 

h 210 200, 225 
Frederick 

f 82 104 

h 65 174 
Frederick C. 

h 205 199 

i 9 212 
Frederick H. 

h 2241 202-3 
Frederick J. 

h 113 1S9 
Frederick W. 

h 75f 176, 216 
Freeman 

f 176 111,1 3o 

g 202d 154 
Furber L. 

i 140 225 
George 

f 73 103 

f 171 1 10, 153 

g 28 115 

g 44 114 

g 180 1 52, 205 

g 202e 1 54, 207 

g 247 159 

h 267 207 
George B. 

g 60 1 1 1, 117, 175 

g 266 161 
George C. 

h 224f 202 
George E. 

g 136 146-8 

h 215 200 

h 218 200, 225 
George F. 

g 82 131, 183 



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NUTTING GENEALOGY 



g 116 14.3, 2UU 

h 41 169 
George H. 

g 52 IK) 

h 75d 121, 17G-S, 

h 208 V.m 

i 10 212 

i 166 22() 
George L. 

h 25 104 
George P. 

h 320 2 1 1 
George S. 

g 219 1 56, 208 
George V. 

e 78 '.II, 104 
George W. 18 

g 245 lo9 

h 47a 169 
George W. M. 

h 143 i'.KJ 
Gertrude 

i 113 22:5 
Gertrude E. 

h 296 21(1 
Gertrude M. 

h 40 Iti'.t 
Gideon 

e 46 88 
Gladys B. C. 

i 174 226 
Godfrey 16, 21, 2.') 
Grace 

h 173 196 

h 302 210 

h 309 2 1 1 
Grace A. 

g 186 l.')2 
Granvelle 

g 139 I l(), 148 
Guy 

f 76 kk; 

Hannah 

d 5 72 

d 48 75 

d 67 76 

e 24 81 

e 62 90 
Hannah H. 

g 201 I r>:i 



Hannah M. 

g 76 1 29 
Harlan P. K. 

h 55 170, 215 
216Harley W. 

h 4 1()2 
Harmon D. 

h 6 l()2 
Harold 1 l.'l 
Harold B. 

i 1 165, 212 
Harold K. 

h 16 214 
Harrie E. 

g 138 148 
Harriet 

g 179 152 

g 2131 155 

h 163 196 
Harriet A. 

g 110 145 
Harriet E. 

g 202 145 
Harriet M. 

g 223 157 
Harrison 

f 157 1 10, 152 

g 213m 155 

h 272o 207 
Harrison B. 

h 231 204 
Harrison N. 

h 230 204 
Harry 

i 123 196, 224 
Harry E. 

h 281 209 
Harvey 

f 131 lOS 

g 46 116 
Hattie 

g 248 159 
Hattie A. 

g 110 i;;7 
Hazel D. 

i 51a 21() 
Hazel M. 

i 161 226 
Helen 

i 5 212 



Helen I. 

h 216 200 
Helen L. 

g 174 151 

i 139 225 

i 163 226 
Henry 

f 26 9 1 

g3 ii;; 

g 205 1 54 
Henry D. 

h 162 19t), 224 
Henry H. 

h 72 175 
Hephsibah 

e 7 78 
Herbert 

h 134 189 
Herbert C. 

h 313 2 1 1 
Herbert W. 

h 243 205 
Hiram 

f 83 104 

f 188 II 0, 156 
Hiram P. 

g 115 145 
Horace 

h 272w 208 
Howard 

h 272n 207 
Howard S. 

i 173 226 
Hudson D. 

g 156 149 
Hulbert 

g 152 149 
Ida Ruth 208 
Inez 150 
Ira B. 

i 2 212 
Irene 

f 57 96 
Irving M. 

h 272e 207 
Isa May 

h 301 210 
Isaac 2o9 

d 3 72, 78 

e 8 78 

h 192 197 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 271 



Isaac F. 


James P. 


f 128 107 


g 107 143 


Isabel M. 


James R. 


i 16 214 


h 23 164 


Isaiah H. 


h 129 196 


g81 131, 189 


James W, 


Isabella R. 


e 71 90, 112 


h 222 201 


g 170 151 


Isla S. M. 


Jane 


k9 214 


e 25 82 


IvaL. 


f 79 103 


h 272 207 


f 169 110 


Izzie May 


Jane B. 


h 39 169 


f 63 98 


Jacob 91, 239 


Jemima 


d 4 72, 78, 145 


d 23 7:! 


d 17 72,81,91,148 


Jennie 


e 12 78, 91 


h 165 196 


e 14 79 


h 271 207 


f 117 107 


Jennie M. 


James 


h 251 206 


b 2 42, 51, 54, 58, 5S 


1 i 12 213 


61, 63,65,68,204 


Jennie R. 


c 12 68, 73 


i 49 216 


c 20 69, 75 


Jerome 


d 11 72 


g 150 149 


d 37 74, 88 


Jessie G. 


d54 75 


h 145 193 


e 44 88, 109 


Joanna 


f 58 96 


c 9 68 


f 81b 103, 143 


Joel 


g5 113 


f 90 105 


g 128 146 


f 120 107 


g 160 150 


g 129 146 


James A. 


John 22, 206, 239-42 


i 135 225 


a 1 9, 23, 40-60, 95, 


James C. 


115, 124, 165 


g 103b 143 


b 142,48,49,51,54,58 


h 303 210, 229 


59,61,63,65,69,70 


James D. 


c 1 13, 65, 72, 82 


h 1 162 


c 16 68, 74 


James F. 


c 17 69, 75, 92 


g 54 116 


d 1 72 


g 98 142, 198 


d 33 73 


James G. 


*d 49 75 


f 144 109 


d58 75 


f 145 109 


d 63 76, 90 


James H, 


e 2 78, 93 


g 234 158, 209 


e 34 12, 87, 106, 159 


h 295 210 


203, 236, 239, 244 


James L, g 11 114 


245 



e 58 89, 105, 1 10 

e 60 90 

e 69 9(1 

e 81 90, 105 

f 6 94 

fl07 106 

f 199 160 

g2 113 

g 140a 14S, 202 

g 181 152 

g 208 154 

g 236 158 

g 260 160 
John A. 

h 2 1()2 

h 325 211 
John C. 2()(i 

g 103 111, 14:;, 200 

gill 145 

h 213 200 
John D. 

h 31 165, 212 

h 61 166, 172-4, 215 
John E. 

h 207 199, 225 
John F. 

f 37 93 
John G. 21, 210 

h 247 205 

i 283 229 
John H. 

g 198 153 

h 232 204 
John K. 128, 9 

g 84 133-5, 193 
John L. 

h 217 200 

i 176 226 
John M. 

i 44 216 
John Q. A. 

g 118 145 
John R. 

g 88 137 
John W. 

f 89 104, 145 
John W. 

f 89 104, 145 

g 27 114 
John W, C. 

h 148 194 



272 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Jonas L'06 

d 70 7(i 

e 61 it() 
Jonathan SS, 24:2 

b 6 17, 49, 54. (il 
tU, (i.'>{5i), 90 

c 4 9, VA, :n, m-s 

c 13 (i8, 74, 151 

c 18 ()9, 75, 92 

d 30 7:5 

d 36 74, S7 

d 45 74 
d 57a 75 
e 3 7S, 94 

e 38 .S7, 1(J7 

f 81 Jo;], 14:5 

f 127 107 

f 135 109 

f 187 110, l.lf) 

f 199 111 
Jonathan E. 

g 104 14;i, 199 
Jonathan P. 

g 219 15G 
Joseph 243 

d 59 75 

f 2 93 

f 192 157 

g 265 U>1 
Joseph D. 

f 64 98-101, 17 1 
Joseph H. 

f 193 15S 

g 234 150 
Joshua 

f 49 9(i 

f 103 lOli, 148 

f 190 111,1 57 
Joshua H. 

h 35 165, 213 
Josiah 244 

b 7 12, (14 

c 15 ()8, 74 

d 34 73, 87, 107 

e 35 87. 107 

f 116 107 
Josiah P. 

h 14 1()3 
Josiah W. 94 
Josie 

k 4 212 



Judith 

g 197 15;! 
Julia 

f 166 110 
()2 g 177 151 

g 213i 155 
. 73 Julia E. 

g 112 145 

g 215 156 
Julia L. 

h 233 20 1 
Juliana 

g 196 153, 20(3 
Julius 

f 138 109, l.-)0 
Junia F. 194 
Keith 143 
Laura A. 

h 287 209 
Lawrence 

h 272h 217 
Leander J. 

g 121 14(j 
Lee 

g 254 159, 210 
Leonard 

f 177a L 1 (i 
Leonard J. 

f 95 105 
Leroy W. 

i 18 211 
Levi 

f 112 107 

f 178 112, 155 
Levi C. 209 
Lewis 

f 152 108 

h 45 in9 
Lewis A. 205 

h 291 209 
Lilian 

h 53 170, 214 
Lillian I. 

i 159 225 
Lillian S. 211 
Lillie E. 

h 238 205 
Lillie J. 

h 38 167 
Lillis R. 

j 45 21 (J 



Lillith M. 

i 182 227-9 
Lizzie 

g 140 14S 

h 226 203 
Lizzie E. 

g 113 145 
Lizzie J. 

h 272g 207 
Lloyd O. 

i 14 2 13 
Lois 

i 165 220 
Lois A. 

g 172 1 5 1 
Lora 

h 9 113, 163 
Lorenzo H. 

h 27 164 
Louis B. 

h 74 175 
Louis E. 

122 214 
Louis W, 210 

i 180 227 
Louisa 

f 43 '.n\ 

f 165 I 10 

g 204 1 54 

h 211 211 
Louisa S. 

g 257 160, 211 
Louise C. 154 
Louise M. 

i 42 215 
Lovilla H. 

g 218 156 
Loyal 

g 239 159 
Loyal L 

i 184 210, 229 
Loyal S. 

i 23 213 
Lucien 

g 154 149 
Lucinda 

f 141 109 

g 232 1 57 

h 227 203 
Lucinda H. 

g 75 128 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 



27i 



Lucius 

f 110 ISO 

g 178 151, 204 
Lucius A. 

h 236 205 
Lucius B. 

gU45 148, 203 
Lucius H. 

h 228 17, 203, 220 
Lucius P. 

i 167 226 
Lucretia 

f 175 111 
Lucy 

e 40 88 

g 176 151 

g 249 159 

h 172 196 
Lucy B. 

g 175 151 
Lucy M. 

h 47 169 
Luke H. 

g 228 157 
Luther 

f 19 92 

f 27 94 

f 39 95, 114 

f 97 105, 145 
. g 26 114 
* g 29 115 
Luther L. 

g 37 115 
Lutie A. 

h 197 198 
Lydia 104 

c 7 68 

d 15 72 

d 24 73 

d 41 74 

f 113 107 

g 142 148 

h 8 163 
Lyman 

f 17 94, 1 1 1 

g 13 114 
Lyman B. 

h 150 195, 223 
Mabel 

h 270 207 



Mabel B. 

i 51c 216 
Mabel H. 

k 15b 214 
Marcia 

h 175 19() 
Marcia Ann 

g 85 136, 194 
Marcus 

f 105 106, 148, 
159 

g 258 16(1, 211 

h 319 2 1 1 
Marcus D. 

h 75 175 
Margaret 

k 10 2 14 
Margaretta 

h 156 195 
Margie 

h 272 287 
Maria 

g 200 153 
Maria G. 

h 52 170 
Maria N. 

f 147 108 
Marie 

i 148 199, 225 
Marion G. 

h 307 210 
Marshall H. 

g 120 146 
Martha 

f 108 106 

g 146 148 

g 230 157 
Martha C. 

g 42 115 

h 224g 202 
Martha E. 

g 78 1 29 

g 89 137 

h 137 190 
Martha J. 143 

g 173 1 5 1 
Mary 42, 154 

b 3 63 

d 22 73 

d46 74 

d 51 75 



e 16 79 

e 29 86 

e 68 90 

f 1 93 

f 5 94 

f 23 94 

f 33 95 

f 93 105 

f 106 106 
149 f 111 107 

f 130 108, 149 

f 167 110 

g 10c 114, 163 

g 38 115 

g 47 116 

g 99 143 

g 193 1 53 

g 199 1 53 

g 213a 155 

g 213f 155, 208 

g 227 157 

g 238 1 59 

g 252 1 59 

h 69 175 

h 272 207 
Mary Adelaide 

g 109 14 1 
Mary Alice 

h 16 163 
Mary Ann 

f 84 101 

g 22 114 

g 220 1 57 

g 229 1 57 

h 324 2 1 1 
Mary E. 

g 103a 143 

g 119 157 

g 215 17, 19, 21, 
51, 76, 90, 112, 
155, 157 

g 235 158 

h 140 19(1 
Mary F. 

g 262 1 53 

h 198 19S 
Mary G. 

h 24 164 
Mary H. 

h 75c 175 



o.i. 



274 



NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Mary J. 

e 107 142 

g 31 1 15 

g 53 IIG 

g 158 150 

h 234 204 
Mary L. 

h 249 205 
Mary O. 

g 62 120, 123 
Mary S. 

g 213 15() 
Mary T. 

g 262 Uii 
Mary W. 

h 144 mi 
Mattie N. 

h 194 198 
Maud A. 

h 42 169 
Maynard 

g 213e 155 
Melitta 

g 7 113, 1()3 
Melvin 210 
Mercy 

f 7 94 
Merrick 

f 129 108, 149 
Merritt 

g 25 114 
Mighill 

f 75 103 
Mildred 



i 156 



-'_'.) 



Millicent 

h 155 195 
Minerva 

f 132 108 
Minnie 189 

h 135 189 
Minnie C. 

h 44 169 
Minnie E. 189 
Miriam 

d 71 76 
Molly 

e 32 86 
Moses 

e 79 104 



Moses L. 

g 114 145 
Moses P. 

f 96 105 

g 264 161, 211 
Muriel 208 
Myron E. 

h 256 206 
Myrtle M. 

h 248 205 
Nancy 

e 55 89 

f 42 96, 115 
Nancy E. 

g 203 153 
Nannie K. M. 

i 43 215 
Nathan 

e 6 78, 94, 149 

f 20 94, 114 

g256 160, 211 
Nathan C. 

e 50 88 
Nathaniel 244 

c 21 70, 76, 91 

d 68 71, 76, 90, 1 

f 85 104 

f 189 157 
Nathaniel H. 

i 51c 216 
Nathaniel W. !»l, 19!; 
Nehemiah 

d 65 76 

d 68 75 
Nellie 

h 160 1 95 
Nellie A. 

h 244 205 
Nellie H. 

h 75b 175 
Newell 

g 9 113, 163 
Newton W. 

h 5 161 
Nina F. 

h 229 204 
Nira C. 

h 147 194 
Norwood C. 194 
Olive 
f 12 94 



h311 211 
Oliver 

e 76 79, 91, 105, 145 

148 
fl53 110 
Oliver G. 

h 240 205 
Oscar H. 194 
Ozias 158 ' 
Patience 

d 28 73 
Paul T. 

146 216 
Peggy 

f 50 96 
Perley G. R. 

h 58 171, 215 
Perry 

h 2721 207 
Peter 

f 13 35, 94, 113 
f 15 94, 113 
h 13 163 
Phebe 
d 19 72 
58 f 160 110 
Phebe J. 

h 322 211 
Philetus M. 
h 321 211 
I Philip • 

f 28 94 
Philip B. 
g 141 148 
. Phineas 206 
f 101 105, 146 
g 126 146 
Phoebe 

d 19 71 
Polly 

e 45 88, 109 
f 80 103 
f 161 110 
Porter 

e 52 88, 110 
f 111 154, 207 
g 202a 154, 207 
h 269 207 
Prudence 
d 69 76 
f 24 94 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 



liirt 



Rachel 

h 318 21 L 
Ralph 

f 35 95, 114 

f 65 101 
Ralph G. 

i 262 220 
Ransom 

f 159 110, 152 
Ray 

i 154 225 
Ray Elwin 

k 7 2]:! 
Raymond 

h 310 211 
Raymond E. 

i 157 225 
Rebecca 

e 64 90 

f 32 95 

f 48 96 
Relief 

e 4 78 
Rena 

i 170 22() 
Rhoda 

f 16 94 

f 55 90 
Richard E. 

i 34 215 
Robert 21. 25, 244 

g 251 159 
Robert B, 

h 71 175, 21G 
Robert C. 

k 17 214 
Robert F. 

i 39 215 
Romanzo L. 

g 123 146 
Romelia L. 

g 224 157 
Roy H. 

h 239 205 
Roxy 

f 44 96 
Ruby M. 

148 210 
Rufus 

f 66 72,101, 136 

g 59 117, 130, 171 



g 86 130, 195 
Russell 

e 77 89, 91, 105 
Ruth 

c 10 68 

d 12 72 

e 9 78 

h 64 174 

i 164 220 
Sadie L. 

g 191 153 
Sally 96, 116, 206 

g8 113 
Sally C. 

e 48 88 
Samuel 244-6 

c 19 69, 75 

d 10 72, 81 

d 57 75, 90, 245 

d 61 75, 244 

f 33 95 

f 194 158 
Samuel E. 

h 50 170, 214 
Samuel G. 

h 11 103 
Samuel H. 

f 91 105, 145 

f 94 103 

g 183 J 52, 158 
Samuel J. 

h 142 193 
Samuel L. 

g 40 115 
Samuel M. 

h 174 J 90 
Samuel N. 115 
Samuel S. 

f 183 112, 155 
Samuel W. 

g 30 115 
Sarah 40, 42, 

a 1 58, 61 

b 4 04 

b 8 49, 05 

c 6 (iS 

d 21 73 

d 32 73 

d 53 75 

d 66 76 

e 26 82 



f 62 98 

f 110 106 

f 164 110 

g 80 117 

g 231 157 

g 253 159 

h 7 162 

h 70 175 

h 225 203 
Sarah A. 

f 125 107 

g 39 11 5 
Sarah B. 

g 263 101 
Sarah C. 

d 40 74 
Sarah E. 

g 222 1 57 

h 298 210 
Sarah H. 

g 80 129-31, 171 
Sarah M. 164 

f 148 108 

g 57 l(i3, 109 

h 59 171 
Sarah W. 

f 143 109 
Seth 

f 56 90, 1 10 
Shirley F. 

i 13 213 
Sibyl 

e 11 78 

f 38 95 
Sibyl A. 

g 36 11 5 
Sidney 

g 209 154, 207 
Silas 

f 14 94 

g 133 140 
Silas D. Ill 
Silas W. 

g 16 111 
Silvia 

f21 iM 
Simeon 

d 31 73 

e 15 79 
Simon 

g 127 146 



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NUTTING GENEALOGY 



Sophia 

e 70 ItO 

g 132 14() 
Sophronia 

f 137 lOi) 

g 161 150 
Stella C. 

h 54 170, lM4 
Stephen 

e 73 ill, 104, 109 

f 36 9.-) 

g 32 115, 165 

g 261 1(10 
Stephen H. 

f 81a 104 

g 35 115 

h 202 199, •2-2r-, 
Stephen M. 

g 225 157, 2()S 
Stoddard 

f 77 103 
Susan 

g 131 U(i, 201 
Susan E. 

h 17 lo:; 
Susan J. 

h 73 175 
Susanna 2'2 

d 73 70 

e 37 87 

f 61 98 

g 77 129 
Susie 

i 138 22r> 
Theodore 

f 146 108 
Thomas 246-8 

d 50 75, 89 

e 13 78 

e 63 90 

f 4 9:i, 11:5 

f 18 94 

g 24 114 
Thomas B. 

f 68 10;; 

f 124 107, 149 

g 147 149, 204 
Thomas W. 

g 255 1 60, 2 1 1 
Timothy 

f 69 103 



Timothy D. 

g 87 130, 195 
Tirzah 1 48 
Truman 

f 174 1 11, 154 

g 212 154, 208 
Vespasian 

f 86 104, 143 
Victor 

h 206 199 
Violet 

i 155 225 
Wallace 

h 63 174, 216 
Wallace S. 

h 43 169 
Wallace W. 

h 37 165-7 
Walter 189 

h 272p 208 

k 3 212 
Walter A. 205, 2 1 
Walter C. 

h 282 209 

i 181 227 
Walter E. H. 

h 33 165, 212 
Walter P. 

g 218 156 
Ward Joy 

h 214 200 
Warren 

g 211 154 
Warren A. 

g 137 148 

h 272a 207' 
Warren D. 11 :! 
Wayne O. 

i 33 215 
Wells P. 152 
Wendel S. 

k 27 229 
Wilber C. 

h 223 201, 229 
Wilder M. 

h 235 204 
Willard A. 

i 137 225 
Willard H. 

h 196 198 



Willie J. 

h 252 206, 22G 
Willis 

h 272b 207 

h 272u 208 
WUlis B. 

h 237 205 
William 91, 105, 248 

c 8 68 

d 20 11, 12,31, 72-3, 
SI, 99 

d 55 75 

e 28 11-14,65,82-6 
9t», 248 

e 59 S9, 91 

f 42 96 

f 60 82, 96-7, 99, 116 

f 71 103, 142 

f 87 104 

f 102 104 

f 114 107, 148 

f 123 107 

f 162 108 

g 1 I 13, 162 

g 21 114 

g 49 116, 165 

g 56 11 6, 169 

h 51 170 

h 164 196 

ofSalfiii 107 
William A. 

g 237 1 58 
William B. 

g 246 150, 210 
William D. 

g 79 129 
William E. 

h 283 209 

h 299 210 
William G. 

g 144 144 
William H. 152, 185 

g 45 1 U) 

h 158 195, 224 

h 277 208 
William H. H. 

g 244 150, 210 

h 304 210 
William J. G. 

g 90 137, 196 



NAME INDEX II, Given Names of Nuttings 277 



William L. 

h 242 205, 22G 
William M. 



h 300 



:iu. 



William P. 
g 189 152 
i 3 212 

William R. 

e 77 U L 



h 60 171, 215 
William S. 

g 130 14(), 201 
William W. 1:^5 

g 96 1 42 

g 221 157 

h 68 175 

h 201 iOi) 



Willis A. 

g 135 140 
Winter 

g 213k 155, 20,S 
Zachariah 

e 1 7S, o:; 

Zelina Helen 

g 214 I r,r) 



ERRATA 

There has been hardly a day since the manuscript of this book- was placed in the hands of 
the printer that some addition or correction has not been received. It soon became an alter- 
native to insert this material in an appendix, or to insert it in place to the occasional dis- 
arrangement of the careful system of numbering by generations. It seemed better to have 
everything together that belonged together and hence these errata occurred. 

Page 28 Both views of Gibbet hill are from the west. 
52 See also page 124. 

82 for Gershem read Gershom. 

83 for Matrass read Mattross. 

90 for d 60 read d 63. 

91 for Addison E. G. read Addison E. 
for Jacob 5 read Jacob 4. 

9G for f 51 Abel, jr. read f 51 Aaron 

for e 23 read e 21. 

103 for e 32 read e 33. 

for f 80 read f 81. 

113 We have learned that g 10b m Antoinette Shattuck. 

1 14 for f 40 read f 39. 
11.5 for f 41 read f 40. 
1 10 for f 43 read f 42. 

117 g 65 Later advices give Rev. E. C. Sharp. See p. 17'J. 
127 for I'agtis read Pangus. 

142 g 97 There was a first wife, Emily Compton, of Jasper county, Ga. 
Sec p. 197. 

143 for f 81 read f 81b. 

f 86 for Peasley read I'casly 
150 for f 153 read f 155. 
152 for f 169 read f 177. 

forf 160 road f 163. 
155 for f 178 Leonard read f 178 Levi. 
103 for g 7 read g 6. 

g 10a for Barber read Barker. 
105 g 32 Mary appeared on p. 115 as Martha. 

for g 48 read g 49. 

for g 49 read g 50. 
203 for John 2 read James 
211 h 311 for 1S98 read 1908. 
214 k 15a should follow i 20. 

There are doubtless other errors in transcribing and interpreting, and the publisher will 
feel grateful to have notice of these sent to him. for the perfection of a second enlarged edition 
which he hopes may be some time called for. 



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